Balli Kaur Jaswal was born in Singapore and grew up in Japan, Russia and the Philippines. She studied Creative Writing at Hollins University in the US and was awarded the David TK Wong Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of five novels for adult readers and has been published in over 20 languages. Balli recently moved from Singapore to Australia though she regularly travels around the world to promote her fiction and meet her readers.