Shanthi Sekaran is a novelist and television writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon. Her novel Lucky Boy was named an Indie Next Great Read, an Amazon Editor's Pick and a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Barnes & Noble, Library Journal and The San Francisco Chronicle. She made her middle grade debut in 2021 with The Samosa Rebellion, winner of the Northern California Book Award. Her most recent book for kids, Boomi's Boombox, was a finalist for the California Book Award. From 2020-2023, she spent three seasons writing for the NBC medical drama, New Amsterdam. She lives in Berkeley, California with her family and a cat named Frog.