High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Uma Krishnaswami is an author of picture books and novels for children, and a writing teacher. She is recognized as a major voice in the expanding of international and multicultural young adult fiction and children's literature. Uma Krishnaswami was born in 1956 in New Delhi, India. She received a degree in political science, and a Masters degree in social work from University of Delhi in India. In 1979, she and her husband moved to the United States where she received an additional graduate degree. They have one son. She lives in Aztec, New Mexico. Her first published story appeared in Children's World, a magazine published in India, when she was thirteen. Her stories and poems have been published in Cricket, Highlights and Cicada. Her books, which include picture books, collections of stories of India, non-fiction books, and novels, are published in English and Spanish.