Maya Prasad is a South Asian American author, a Caltech graduate, and a former software engineer. She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, where she enjoys hiking, kayaking, and raising her budding bookworm kiddo. For upwards of two years, she was hounded by neighborhood crows after allegedly wandering too close to a nest. Fortunately, she’s since been un-blacklisted. Redemption is possible, friends. She’s the author of the YA novel Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things, as well as the Sejal Sinha chapter book series. Her short fiction has been published in Cast of Wonders, Uncharted Magazine, and the print anthology Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA. Visit her website www.mayaprasad.com or find her on Instagram, Bluesky, or TikTok @msmayaprasad.