Uma Krishnaswami

Uma Krishnaswami is an 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]

For other people named Krishnaswami, see Krishnaswami.

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

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)
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References
  1. "Uma Krishnaswami and International Imaginings." Journal of Children's Literature. Fall 2006. p 60-65. Frederick Luis Aldama.
  2. http://www.childrenslit.com/childrenslit/mai_krishnaswami_uma.html
  3. http://www.papertigers.org/interviews/archived_interviews/UKrishnaswami.html
  4. Acknowledgements in The Broken Tusk: Stories of the Hindu God Ganesha Broken Tusk, 2006
  5. http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2001-147500
  6. http://www.tulikabooks.com/picbooks29.htm
  7. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6714481.html?nid=2413&source=link&rid=17067804
  8. http://www.childrensbookguild.org/about-our-members/member-pages
  9. http://www.writers.com/krishnaswami.html
  10. http://www.nps.gov/archive/azru/program2.htm
  11. http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/196
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 March 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. http://www.childrensbookguild.org/krishnaswami.htm
  14. http://www.tcnj.edu/~childlit/proj/nbgs/nbgs-lists/nbgs2005.html
  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".

Interviews
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