Braja Sorensen is an author, poet, photographer, bhakti-yogini, cook, and cow lover, hailing from the beaches of Australia. She has lived in on the banks of the sacred Ganges River in Mayapur, West Bengal, since the turn of the century. She is the author of Lost & Found in India (2013); Mad & Divine (2015); her first novel, Of Noble Blood (due 2016); and her first novella, Kavita: Search for Transcendence (due 2015). She has other published works in the Vaishnava genre: 18 Days: Sri Panca-tattva's Mayapur-lila (2004), and India & Beyond: Plane Reading for Part-time Babajis (2012). Braja also worked for some years on Nava-vraja-mahima (Lal Publishing, 2013) authored by Sivarama Swami: a nine-volume treatise on the sacred land of India through the Vaishnava perspective of pastime, pilgrimage, and philosophy. Her award-winning poetry has been published in the UK and Australia, and she was the Managing Editor for several years for Mayapur Magazine and Mayapur Journal. www.brajasorensen.com.
