Menon, Sandhya
Birth Year (-Died Year):
1983
Birth City:
Mumbai
Birth State:
India
Current Location:
Colorado Springs, CO
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Occupation(s):
New York Times bestselling author
Biography:
Sandhya Menon is the author of the YA rom-com When Dimple Met Rishi (Simon and Schuster, May 2017), which has been hailed by Bustle magazine as "the arranged marriage YA rom-com we've been waiting for." She was born and raised in India on a steady diet of Bollywood movies and street food. She pretty much blames this upbringing for her obsession with happily-ever-afters, bad dance moves, and pani puri.
Sandhya currently lives just outside Colorado Springs, where she’s on a mission to (gently) coerce her husband, son, and daughter to watch all 3,220 Bollywood movies she claims as her favorite.
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Awards/Honors:
2018 Colorado Book Award Winner - When Dimple Met Rishi (Young Adult Fiction category)
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