Anjali Mitter Duva is an Indian-American writer raised in France. She is the author of Faint Promise of Rain, and co-founder of Chhandika, a non-profit organization dedicated to India’s classical dance form called kathak. Anjali was a finalist for a 2018 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. She is also a frequent speaker at conferences, libraries, schools and other cultural institutions. Educated at Brown University and MIT, she lives near Boston where she is working on her next book and runs a teen book club and the Arlington Author Salon.