Balli Kaur Jaswal

Singaporean-Australian novelist born in Singapore and raised in Japan, Russia, and the Philippines due to her father's diplomatic career. She studied creative writing at Hollins University in the US and holds a PhD in South Asian diaspora writing from Nanyang Technological University, where she has also taught. She is the author of several novels including Inheritance (2013), winner of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelist Award, and Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (2017), a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.