Vandana Singh is an Indian writer of science fiction and fantasy living in the Boston area, where she also teaches college physics. She was born and raised in New Delhi, India, a place where stories can almost literally be plucked from the air. She came to the U.S. as a graduate student, and, finding herself on alien shores, naturally turned to her first love in the realm of books: science fiction and fantasy—first as a reader and then as a writer. Her stories have been published in anthologies such as Polyphony, Trampoline, Rabid Transit, So Long Been Dreaming, and Interfictions as well as magazines such as Strange Horizons, InterNova and The Third Alternative; they have appeared on shortlists for the BSFA Award and Carl Brandon Parallax Award, and have been reprinted in a couple of Year’s Best anthologies.

Vandana Singh writes happily and indiscriminately for children as well as adults; her first book for children, Younguncle Comes to Town, originally published in India, was released in the U.S. in Spring 2006 from Viking Children’s Books and is an ALA Notable book and a Junior Library Guild Selection. A sequel, Younguncle in the Himalayas, is currently out in India.

Vandana’s first short story collection for adults, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories, will be published in India this Fall by Zubaan Books. She is also working on several short stories, a young adult novel and an anthology of Science Fiction from India.