Anuradha (Anu) Kumar lives in New Jersey with her family. She lived in various places in India before moving to Singapore and later the US. She has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) and has degrees in history and management as well. Her stories have won awards from the Commonwealth Foundation, UK, and the Little Magazine, India. As Adity Kay, she wrote three bestselling works of historical fiction published by Hachette India: Emperor Chandragupta, Emperor Vikramaditya and Emperor Harsha. She writes regularly for Scroll.in. Her stories and essays have appeared in places like The Missouri Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, The Common, The Maine Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Litro magazine, South Dakota Review, The Dalhousie Review (Canada), and other places. She has written for younger readers as well. Her most recent novel is a work of historical mystery called, The Kidnapping of Mark Twain, published by Speaking Tiger Books, India, available as a paperback in South Asia, and digitally worldwide.