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Supriya grew up in the Midwest, where she learned Hindi as a child by watching three Hindi movies a week. Winner of the New Visions Award for her middle grade novel AHIMSA (Tu Books, 2017) , Supriya is a screenwriter who has worked on the writing teams for several Hindi films. Supriya's books include AHIMSA, THE MANY COLORS OF HARPREET SINGH (Sterling, 2019, art by Alea Marley) , AMERICAN AS PANEER PIE (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2020) , STRONG AS FIRE, FIERCE AS FLAME (Tu Books, 2020) , BINDU'S BINDIS (Sterling, 2021, art by Parvati Pillai) , THAT THING ABOUT BOLLYWOOD (Simon and Schuster BFYR, 2021) , BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL (FSG, 2022, art by Noor Sofi) , MY NAME (FSG, 2023, art by Sandhya Prabhat) . Supriya is the illustrator of MY DIWALI LIGHT (Raakhee Mirchandani, Little, Brown, 2022) , and AMERICAN DESI (Jyoti Rajan Gopal, Little, Brown, 2022) . Supriya is represented by Kathleen Rushall at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, and Kim Yau at Echo Lake Entertainment for film/TV rights. Learn more at www.supriyakelkar.com
