Kavitha Yaga Buggana lives in Hyderabad, India with her husband. They have two children and a very excitable golden retriever. Her essays and short fiction have been published in The Hindu, River Teeth Journal, Tehelka, Out of Print Magazine, JaggeryLit, and Muse India Magazine. Her travel memoir, Walking in Clouds was released in December 2018 by HarperCollins, India. ​In previous avatars, she was a software engineer in Chicago and a developmental economist doing field work in Angallu village, South India.