Chatura Rao

Bio

Chatura Rao writes stories for children and long-form articles about the goings-on in the world. Her older picture books, Gone Grandmother and The Sweet Shop Wars, have won literary prizes. Her journalistic writing centres around community practices and gender, and has won regional and national awards. She is a visiting faculty at the Srishti-Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology and has served as the Festival Director of the Chandigarh Children’s Literature Festival since 2015. Her latest book is Leaf People, a novella about a brother, a sister, and a mysterious walking bush. She hopes her readers will spot magic in the ordinary long after they grow up!