Sayantani DasGupta is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed, Bengali folktale and string theory-inspired Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond books, the first of which—The Serpent’s Secret—was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, a Booklist Best Middle Grade Novel of the 21st Century, and an EB White Read Aloud Honor Book.
She is the author of two other series set in the Kingdom Beyond multiverse, the anticolonial Fire Queen series and the environmentally themed adventures, Secrets of the Sky.
She is also the author of Anika and the Great Dog Rescue (a Girl Scouts book), She Persisted: Virginia Apgar, and two Jane Austen inspired contemporary YA novels, Debating Darcy and Rosewood: A Midsummer Meet Cute.
Her most recent book is the instant New York Times bestselling art repatriation/museum heist Theft of the Ruby Lotus.
Sayantani is a pediatrician by training, but now teaches at Columbia University. When she’s not writing or reading, Sayantani spends time watching cooking shows with her trilingual children and protecting her black Labrador retriever Khushi from the many things that scare him, including plastic bags.
She can be found online at sayantanidasgupta.com and on both Instagram and TikTok @sayantanidasguptabooks.
