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Uma Krishnaswami
reading at the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival
reading at the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Born1956
OccupationWriter, writing teacher
Period1990s–present
GenreChildren's literature, picture books, non-fiction
Website
umakrishnaswami.org

Uma Krishnaswami is an Indian author of picture books and novels for children, and a writing teacher. She is "recognized as a major voice in the expanding of international and multicultural young adult fiction and children's literature."[1]

Biography

Uma Krishnaswami was born in 1956 in New Delhi, India. She received a degree in Political Science, and a master's degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi in India.[2] In 1979, she and her husband moved to the United States where she received an additional graduate degree.[2][3] They have one son [4] and live in Aztec, New Mexico.

Her first published story appeared in Children's World, a magazine published in India, when she was thirteen. Her stories and poems have been published in Cricket, Highlights and Cicada.[1] Her books, which include picture books, collections of stories of India, non-fiction books and novels, are published in English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil and six other languages.[5][6]

Chachaji's Cup, one of Krishnaswami's picture books, was adapted into a musical and performed in several theaters in both New York City and California in 2010.[7]

Krishnaswami was a founding co-director of the Bisti Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project in New Mexico.[3] She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and a nonresident member of The Children's Book Guild of Washington DC.[8] She has taught writing to adults and children for years, and for over ten years she was the writer in residence at the Aztec Ruins National Monument.[9][10] During that time she also taught writing classes online through Writers on the Net.[11] She currently teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.[12]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

  • Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh (2017)
  • The Grand Plan to Fix Everything (2011)
  • Naming Maya (2004)

Picture books

  • Out of the Way! Out of the Way! (2010)
  • Remembering Grandpa (2007)
  • Bringing Asha Home (2006)
  • The Closet Ghosts (2006)
  • The Happiest Tree (2005)
  • Monsoon (2003)
  • Chachaji's Cup (2003)

Easy readers

  • Holi (2003)
  • Hello Flower (2002)
  • Yoga Class (2001)

Retold story collections

  • The Broken Tusk: Stories of the Hindu God Ganesha (2006, 1996)
  • Shower of Gold: Girls and Women in the Stories of India (1999)
  • Stories of the Flood (1994)

Short fiction

  • "The Gift," in Period Pieces (2003)
  • "Going to Kashi," in Soul Searching (2002)

Nonfiction

  • Beyond the Field Trip : Teaching and Learning in Public Places (2002)

Co-authored

  • Many Windows : Six Kids, Five Faiths, One Community. Written with Rukhsana Khan and Elisa Lynn Carbone (2008)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Uma Krishnaswami and International Imaginings." Journal of Children's Literature. Fall 2006. p 60-65. Frederick Luis Aldama.
  2. ^ a b "Undefined".
  3. ^ a b "papertigers | interviews". www.papertigers.org. Archived from the original on 15 June 2006.
  4. ^ Acknowledgements in The Broken Tusk: Stories of the Hindu God Ganesha Broken Tusk, 2006
  5. ^ http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2001-147500
  6. ^ "Picture Books - Out of the Way! Out of the Way!: Tulika Books Publishers India". www.tulikabooks.com. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010.
  7. ^ "Library Journal".
  8. ^ "Children's Book Guild - Our Member Pages". www.childrensbookguild.org. Archived from the original on 25 September 2009.
  9. ^ "Writers.com/Writers on the Net". www.writers.com. Archived from the original on 20 December 2004.
  10. ^ "Aztec Ruins National Monument Teacher Resources". Archived from the original on 28 December 2006.
  11. ^ "Uma Krishnaswami | Vermont College of Fine Arts". www.vermontcollege.edu. Archived from the original on 1 August 2009.
  12. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 March 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. ^ "The Children's Book Guild of Washington D.C." www.childrensbookguild.org. Archived from the original on 21 August 2003.
  14. ^ "IRA Children's Literature and Reading SIG Projects - NBGS 2005 List - Multicultural Literature".
  15. ^ "'Popular choice' ruled at book awards". Times of India. 7 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  16. ^ "Grand Prize Winner".
  17. ^ "2017-2018 Awards Winners".


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