Kalyani Rao

The 28-year-old writer is an IT professional who has mostly lived in Mumbai and Pune. Apart from writing, she also likes to paint and travel. In her words, “Traveling is my passion. I have traveled bag packing to some countries.” A big fan of Haruki Murakami, she also blogs and some of her writing can be found at twinklingpebbles.wordpress.com. An amateur writer since she was 15, she is also a member of writing.com, where I was awarded one of the 'rising stars'. She has also won couple of writing competitions on the site and loves to write poetry.