Sandhya Menon

Menon grew up in India and is a die-hard fan of Bollywood films. She moved to the US from India when she was fifteen years old.[3] She had a hard-time growing up in two different cultures and says that she always wanted to be a writer, but her family pressured her to study medicine.[3]

Menon writes young adult fiction for teenagers and rom-coms, often with Indian-American protagonists. Her first book When Dimple Met Rishi was published in 2017. It's a young adult rom-com about two Indian-American teenagers, Dimple and Rishi, whose parents are trying to arrange their marriage. The book was published by Hachette and was a New York Times bestseller.[4][5] The book was adapted into the Netflix series Mismatched in 2020.[6]

Menon's next book, From Twinkle, with Love, about a teenage Indian-American aspiring filmmaker who collaborates on a documentary with her crush's brother, was published by Simon Pulse in May 2018.[7][8] A companion to her debut, called There's Something About Sweetie, about two Indian-American teens and an arranged marriage matched by their parents, was published in 2019.[9]

The first book in her first series, Of Curses and Kisses, centering on a boarding school for royals and a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, will be published by Simon Pulse in 2020.[7]

Her rom-com debut, Make-Up Break Up, about an Indian-American entrepreneur and her matchmaking business, will be published by St. Martin's Press in 2021.[7]

Menon now lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with her husband and two children, a son and a daughter.[10]

• When Dimple Met Rishi (2017)
• From Twinkle, with Love (2018)
• There's Something About Sweetie (2019)
• As Kismet Would Have It (2019)
• Love at First Fight (2020)
• 10 Things I Hate About Pinky (2020)
• Of Curses and Kisses (2020)

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