Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Shipli Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto to parents who migrated there from Bombay. She earned a Bachelor's Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was awarded a Morehead Scholarship, and an MBA from Stanford University. After moving to Dallas in 2006, she enrolled in the SMU Novel Writing series. On the basis of her manuscript, she was selected to participate in the New York Writers' Seminar. She lives in Dallas with her husband and two daughters, and is working on a second novel.