Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-born American author and poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her novels include The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, and The Palace of Illusions, and her short story collection Arranged Marriage won an American Book Award in 1996. Much of her work is set in India and the United States and follows South Asian immigrants, and she writes for children as well as adults, across realistic fiction, historical fiction, magical realism and fantasy.