Shweta Ganesh Kumar is the bestselling author of two novels on the Indian broadcast news industry, titled ‘Coming Up On The Show’ and ‘Between The Headlines’.
Her monthly column ‘Trippin With Shweta’ is a steady feature in the Indian magazine, Travel and Flavours. The New Indian Express, One Philippines, Venture (Indonesia) and Geo (Indian edition) have published many of her travel columns. Her non-fiction pieces have been featured in Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul, Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul – On Friendship and also in CBW’s India’s Top 42 Weekend Getaways eBook.
Her short fiction and poetry has been published in Indian Voices, Australian Women Online, Single Solitary Thought, Damazine, Shades of Love and other anthologies as well as online literary magazines in more than four continents. She also writes and illustrates on the joys and tribulations of being a parent in a weekly blog, ‘The Times Of Amma—The motherhood bulletin with badly-drawn cartoons’
In the past, she has been a news trainee, desk editor, TV news correspondent with CNN-IBN and a communications officer at Greenpeace India.
Shweta is a writer, mother, wife and traveler. She currently lives in El Salvador with her husband and two-year old daughter.
You can read more about her life and work at www.shwetaganeshkumar.com