Balli Kaur Jaswal

Balli Kaur Jaswal is the author of five novels, including <i>Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows</i> which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.

Born in Singapore and raised in Japan, Russia and the Philippines, Jaswal studied creative writing in the United States and worked as an English teacher in Australia and Turkey. She has held fellowships at the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University, where she also completed her PhD in South Asian diaspora writing. Jaswal’s non-fiction has appeared in the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Harper’s Bazaar India</i>, <i>Refinery29</i> and Salon.com, among other publications.

She lives in Singapore with her husband and son.