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…like all writers, i knew i was
different when stories came to me everyday, in class, in my sleep, in the
shower…finally, i said, “oh, what the heck” and wrote one of them down …
 I was born in Kathmandu, Nepal
then moved to the U.S. at a young age. It was all very exciting. I should
have known I’d become a writer when during college, I was scribbling
stories about Indian vampires converting innocent bystanders to Hinduism
instead of taking notes during Intro to Computer Science.
I did the standard South Asian thing of getting a “real” job
and began taking writing classes in 2003 in my new home of Seattle,
Washington.
My life changed that second day of class when I was propelled
to read one of my chapters aloud. The support I got during that class
forced me to finish that book…and the next…and the next.
Four books and four years later, I got THE CALL, fittingly,
during a trip to India in late 2006. After a breathless,
middle-of-the-night phone call to my agent, it was official. I was going to
be a published author. HOW TO SALSA IN A SARI is my first
YA novel and will be a January 2008 release from Harlequin’s Kimani Tru
line.
My inspiration is and always has been my loving family, my
fabulous critique partners, my supportive friends all over the world, and
of course my devoted husband and best  friend Manav, who is my greatest enthusiast and critic.
Manav and I currently live in Kirkland, Washington where we are
regularly bossed over by a very demanding gray tabby named Ash. I still
have my “real” job at Microsoft but make sure to write at least one page
every day.
I belong to an on-line writing group called the Buzz
Blog Girls, the greatest group of supportees a writer could ask for.
I love to chat, so please contact me if you want to talk to me
some more.
Thanks and happy reading!
Love always,,
Dona Sarkar-Mishra
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