Neela Vaswani

Neela Vaswani is the co-author (with Silas House) of the middle-grade novel Same Sun Here and the author of You Have Given Me a Country and Where the Long Grass Bends. Her work has received an American Book Gold Award, an O. Henry Prize, and a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award. A teacher at Spalding University’s MFA in Writing program and founder of the Storylines Project with the New York Public Library, Neela Vaswani lives in New York City.