Balli Kaur Jaswal

Balli Kaur Jaswal is the author of three works of fiction, including her debut, Inheritance, which won the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Best Young Australian Novelist Award, and Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. She was born in Singapore and grew up in Japan, Russia, and the Philippines. She studied creative writing at Hollins University in Virginia. She has been the national writer-in-residence at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.