Parul Sharma

Parul Sharma is an Indian novelist and essayist based in Singapore. She is the author of Bringing Up Vasu, By the Watercooler, Tuki’s Grand Salon Chase, and 17, Morris Road (Hachette India, 2024). Her forthcoming novel, The Missing Piece (Hachette India, 2026), explores identity, inheritance, and the search for ancestral roots.

She grew up in the small towns of Uttar Pradesh, whose distinctive characters and layered social worlds have deeply shaped her writing. She studied Economics at Delhi University and later graduated from the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, before working in qualitative market research and turning to writing full-time.

Alongside fiction, Parul writes personal and cultural essays on Substack.