Nandini Patwardhan

Nandini Patwardhan grew up in India and has lived in the United States for the last thirty five years. A math major by training and software developer by vocation, she is a writer by avocation. Patwardhan started writing personal essays as a way to record her experiences as "an Indian mom raising American kids." Soon, writing became her way of getting to the heart of her deepest convictions. A little later, she realized that her personal essays were like letters from her old self to her current self--a way to remember, map the journey, and create meaning.