Sandhya Menon | |
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 Menon in 2017 | |
| Born | 1983 (age 41–42) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Young Adult |
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Sandhya Menon is an Indian American author based in Colorado, United States. She is the author of New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met Rishi and From Twinkle, with Love. [1] [2]
Menon was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to Indian Malayali parents. [3] She is a die-hard fan of Bollywood films. She moved to the US from India when she was fifteen years old. [4] She had a hard-time growing up in two different cultures and says that she always wanted to be a writer, but her family pressured her to study medicine. [4]
Menon writes young adult fiction for teenagers and rom-coms, often with Indian-American protagonists. Her first book When Dimple Met Rishi was published in 2017. It's a young adult rom-com about two Indian-American teenagers, Dimple and Rishi, whose parents are trying to arrange their marriage. The book was published by Hachette and was a New York Times bestseller. [5] [6] The book was adapted into the Netflix series Mismatched in 2020. [7]
Menon's next book, From Twinkle, with Love, about a teenage Indian-American aspiring filmmaker who collaborates on a documentary with her crush's brother, was published by Simon Pulse in May 2018. [8] [9] A companion to her debut, called There's Something About Sweetie, about two Indian-American teens and an arranged marriage matched by their parents, was published in 2019. [10]
The first book in her first series, Of Curses and Kisses, centering on a boarding school for royals and a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, will be published by Simon Pulse in 2020. [8]
Her rom-com debut, Make-Up Break Up, about an Indian-American entrepreneur and her matchmaking business, will be published by St. Martin's Press in 2021. [8]
Menon now lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her husband and two children, a son and a daughter. [11]
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