Simrita Dhir is a an academic and novelist. She is a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Standard Awardee. She received her PhD in American Literature from the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. She now lives with her husband and their son in San Diego, California, where she studied Advanced Rhetoric at the Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, San Diego State University. She lectures on Writing, Diversity and Imagination at the University of California, San Diego, and is the author of the novels "The Rainbow Acres" and "The Song of Distant Bulbuls". Readers may connect with her on: Facebook @ The Song of Distant Bulbuls Instagram@ simrita_dhir