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Nikita Singh
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Nikita Singh Bihar (2016)
Born (1991-10-06) 6 October 1991 (age 32)
Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
EducationMaster of Fine Arts – Creative Writing Bachelor of Pharmacy
OccupationWriter
Years active2011 – present
Known forAuthor of Every Time It Rains, Someone Like You, Like a Love Song
Spouse
Nick Sheridan
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(m. 2022)​
[1]
Website nikitasbooks.com

Nikita Singh (born 6 October 1991) is an Indian writer. [2] [3] [4] She has written twelve books including The Reason is You, Every Time It Rains, Like a Love Song, The Promise and After All This Time. [5] [6] [7] She has also edited and contributed to an anthology of stories titled 25 Strokes of Kindness. [8] Her 2016 novel, Like a Love Song, debuted at No. 2 at Hindustan Times Bestseller list. In the following year, Every Time It Rains, debuted on No. 7 on the same list.

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Early life and career

Nikita Singh was born in Patna, Bihar, where she spent the first four years of her life. She then relocated to Indore, where she went to a primary school. She completed her schooling at Bridgeford School, Ranchi, in 2008. She graduated in pharmacy at the Acropolis Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research in Indore in 2012. She then moved to New York for a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from The New School, New York City, from where she graduated in 2016. In 2022 she married an American husband and is currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. [9] [10] [11]

She signed a contract with Penguin Books India in 2011 and also joined Grapevine India as an editor. She wrote her first book Love @ Facebook when 19 years old and was studying pharmacy. [12] Love @ Facebook is a young adult book about a nineteen-year-old girl, who falls in love with a VJ, after befriending him on Facebook. Under the pseudonym Sidharth Oberoi, she has also contributed to the books in "The Backbenchers" series, by editing the first book and writing the second book of the series, The Backbenchers: The Missed Call, which was released in June 2012.[ citation needed ]

Huffpost called Singh "India's Leading Romance Writer" in an expansive profile done on the writer in 2017. [13] The Hindu called her "the Goddess of Racy Reads" in an article. [14] Singh received a Live India Young Achievers Award in 2013 and was nominated for a First International Young Author Award, held in April 2018 in UAE. [15]

In September 2011, the sequel to Singh’s Love @ Facebook, Accidentally In Love..With Him? Again? was published. The novel is aimed at an older audience than Love @ Facebook. In February 2012, If It's Not Forever...It's Not Love , was published. The book is about a real-life incident, the Delhi High Court Blast, which occurred on 7 September 2011. The protagonist of the book was there when the blast happened. He stumbles upon a half-burnt diary, which had a love story written in it and decides to chase it. Nikita also edited an anthology, 25 Strokes of Kindness. [16]

Singh has also spoken on various TEDx conferences in colleges and top business schools across India. [17] [18] She also worked as an editor in Grapevine India. [19] [20] Her book, Like a Love Song, was released in March 2016. [21] [22] This was followed by Every Time It Rains, which was released in February 2017. [23] [24] In February 2018, her book, Letters To My Ex, was released and sold widely across the Indian subcontinent. Her most recent novel, The Reason Is You, was released in February 2019.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

Nikita has an elder brother, Nishant. In 2022, Nikita married Nick Sheridan, [1] who is Senior Technical Program Manager at Sonos in New York.

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  2. ↑ Aastha Atray Banan (1 August 2015). "Nikita Singh has written eight bestsellers in four years. What's her secret?". Hindustan Times . Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Udhav Naig (11 May 2014). "Nikita Singh: the goddess of racy reads". The Hindu . Retrieved 10 January 2016.
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  13. ↑ "This 25-Year-Old Woman Is Now India's Leading Romance Writer And She Has No Time For Snobs". HuffPost India. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  14. ↑ Naig, Udhav (11 May 2014). "Nikita Singh: the goddess of racy reads". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  15. ↑ Gautam Sunder (10 May 2014). "Book Launch: Nikita Singh's 'Right Here Right Now'". Deccan Chronicle . Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  16. ↑ "Orvana has also co-edited another famous book by Nikita Singh called '25 Strokes Of Kindness'! (Image Courtesy - Instagram)".
  17. ↑ "Speakers" . Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  18. ↑ Sinha, Suveen (13 November 2016). "People shame you when you are ugly, and also when you are not: Nikita Singh". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  19. ↑ Shalini Shah (20 February 2013). "Two to tell a tale". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  20. ↑ Sreyoshi Dey (1 March 2012). "Books: Love, Sex And Marriage". Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
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