Sanjana, now aged 19 yrs., was born in New Jersey, U.S.A. This upcoming writer has been writing poems since age four. While in New Jersey, at the age of 6 yrs., two of her poems were published in the newsletter of Martin Luther King Jr. School, Edison, New Jersey, U.S.A. She spent her first 7 yrs. in New Jersey and then due to parental divorce case came to India. It was difficult for her to adjust to the new changes and writing poetry, earlier her passion, now became a way to express her emotions. She started participating in online international poetry contests where she received star ratings for some of her poems. Her poems can still be found on voicesnet.com, poetry4kids.com, etc. She has also received several accolades in poetry recitation and poetry writing competitions in her school.
Recognizing her as a good poetess, in 4th standard, a panel of judges chose her poem to be exhibited in the science exhibition conducted in honor to welcome former president, Shri A.P.J Abdul Kalam on 1 March 2011. She also wrote a poem on Marathi film actress, Samira Gujar-Joshi, and presented it to her on the occasion of Women's Day.
Fascinated by her poems, her music teacher, Shrikant Chauhan chose two of her poems that were composed into welcome songs for the annual gathering of her school in December, 2012. She wrote poems for the school year book in six languages i.e. English, Hindi, Marathi, French, Spanish, and Japanese. Five of her Marathi poems were published in Urja magazine Diwali Edition 2013, the magazine compiled by Dr. Mohan Doshi. This encouraged her and she composed a book especially for the young Indians to learn about the divine soul in a poetic form.
Sanjana has also won several awards for short story writing competitions. She won the first rank in the Lekhak-Vachak Storing Writing Competition conducted in Dombivali by Pai’s Friends Library. She has also won awards in various intraschool competitions.
Sanjana Butala has presently passed out of Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane, Maharashtra, India. She has excellent academic records and was lucky to be selected as the youngest school news reporter in Thane District, Maharashtra, for Times of India NIE (Newspaper in Education) in grade fifth and wrote for this paper till grade 10. In 2018, Sanjana received the first rank at the National ASISC Creative Writing Competition. She has successfully published her five poetry books-'Hindu Deities', 'Maa...', 'Life Insights' and 'Knots and Ties', and now ‘Giggling Geese’. ’13 Haunted Stories’ is her first short stories book. Supported and motivated by her mother, she is also working on her next planned short stories book.