Roshani Chokshi
, b. 1991
Roshani Chokshi is a New York Times best-selling author of Young Adult and Middle Grade fantasy fiction. Her works include the YA Star-Touched series (The Star-Touched Queen (2016), The Crown of Wishes (2017), the short story collection Star-Touched Stories (2018), and the novella Death and Night (2018)); and the Middle Grade Pandava Quartet series (Aru Shah and the End of Time (2018)). Her forthcoming YA, The Gilded Wolves, is the first part of a historical-fantasy adventure series.
Chokshi has Indian (father) and Filipino (mother) heritage, and was raised with fairytales from both cultures. She graduated from Emory University in 2013 with an English degree with an emphasis on Medieval English, and wrote her honours thesis on the role of ‘the Otherworldly’ on the hero’s journey in Middle English Breton lais. In 2014, after she completed the first draft of The Star-Touched Queen, she began to study law at the University of Georgia, but took a break after one year. In December 2016, she officially withdrew from law school to write full-time.
Many of her works take influence from Hindu myths she was raised with, as well as classical and commercial fiction she has enjoyed. In particular, she cites the following Hindu myths as having influenced The Star-Touched Queen: Savitri and Satyavan, Shiva and Parvati, The Ramayana, Shakuntula, and Narasimha. Poetry has also strongly influenced her work, and she has been writing poems since she was 10.
Sources:
Publisher’s profile (accessed: July 5, 2018).
Author’s Goodreads profile (accessed: July 5, 2018).
Interview with Rick Riordan (accessed: August 1, 2018).
Interview with Monica Lefton of The Emory Wheel, “The Experience After Emory: Roshani Chokshi” (accessed: August 1, 2018).
Interview with New Asian Writing (accessed: August 1, 2018).
Interview with Chokshi in which Hades and Persephone is cited as a primary inspiration for The Star-Touched Queen, (accessed: November 18, 2018).
Emory Electronic Theses and Dissertations (accessed: August 1, 2018).
Instagram post about law school (accessed: August 1, 2018).
Author's personal Blog (accessed: January 07, 2019).
Author's Twitter (accessed: January 07, 2019).
Author's Website (accessed: January 07, 2019).
Author's Facebook (accessed: January 07, 2019).
Author's Goodreads account (accessed: January 07, 2019).
Author's Instagram (accessed: January 07, 2019).
Bio prepared by Emily Booth, University of Technology, Sydney, Emily.Booth@student.uts.edu.au
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