Alka Joshi

Alka Joshi is a graduate of Stanford University and received her MFA from the California College of the Arts. She has worked as an advertising copywriter, a marketing consultant and an illustrator. Alka was born in India, in the state of Rajasthan. Her family moved to the USA when she was nine, and she now lives on California’s Monterey Peninsula with her husband and two misbehaving pups. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist was a Reese Witherspoon Hello Sunshine Book Club pick and a New York Times bestseller. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur is her second novel. Find her online at www.thehennartist.com.