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Hi there! My name is Priya Malhotra and I’m a writer and journalist based in New York City for about 20 years. I am the author of the novel Woman Of An Uncertain Age, scheduled to be released by Bedazzled Ink in Fall 2022 and I really hope you will read my book. I’ve been writing forever and have contributed to numerous publications including Newsday, Time Out New York, The Times of India, The Japan Times, Asian Art News, Cosmopolitan, and News India Times. For several years, I was a staff writer for financial publications. Because, you know . . . one has to pay the bills.
Unlike some writers, I’m hugely extroverted (my friends claim I can talk to a wall and strangers, bring them on!) and love meeting new people. I’m extremely curious, and have a wide range of interests including psychology, gender, education, literature, world cultures and art. And people’s lives. I find them to be most interesting.
I’ve written about contemporary art for Hong Kong-based Asian Art News magazine for more than a decade and prior to motherhood was the publication’s New York contributing editor. Currently, I write fiction and takes care of my two young daughters and squeeze in time for non-fiction whenever time allows. I have a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City and a Bachelor's degree in English literature from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Fiction has always been my first love, but I started my career in journalism to gain exposure to a wide variety of experiences, places and people because I believed it would inform and enrich my stories. I’m utterly fascinated by the inner lives of people, particularly women, and if I were ever to discover a way, you may see me trying to climb into people’s heads.
While doing my graduate degree at Columbia, I was really intrigued to find some American women converting to Islam because the religion appealed to them from a gender perspective. So I wrote my Master’s thesis on the subject. A groundbreaking piece, it was published in Newsday, a major American newspaper. Soon after, leading reference book publisher H.W. Wilson included the work in a compilation of important articles on religion in politics and society from esteemed national publications such as The New York Times and Atlantic Monthly.
I grew up in New Delhi, India (actually, I’m still growing up:) where I was raised mostly secular, loosely Hindu, and attended Catholic School. Passionate about languages since childhood, I speak English, Hindi, and Urdu along with a smattering of Punjabi, and Spanish. I remain connected to India where I return to for long periods every year unless the pandemic kills my plans. I’m afflicted by chronic wanderlust and traveled to several countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Italy, France, Spain, China, Thailand and Brazil before having kids. A global citizen at heart, I often dream of living in different countries.
I feel incredibly fortunate to be represented by Jennifer Lyons of Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency whose clients have included luminaries like Jesmyn Ward who made history by becoming the first woman and African-American to win the National Book Award for fiction twice. The agency also represents the estates of Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean Poet and first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and Oscar Hijuelos, the Cuban-American novelist and first Hispanic writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Unlike some writers, I’m hugely extroverted (my friends claim I can talk to a wall and strangers, bring them on!) and love meeting new people. I’m extremely curious, and have a wide range of interests including psychology, gender, education, literature, world cultures and art. And people’s lives. I find them to be most interesting.
I’ve written about contemporary art for Hong Kong-based Asian Art News magazine for more than a decade and prior to motherhood was the publication’s New York contributing editor. Currently, I write fiction and takes care of my two young daughters and squeeze in time for non-fiction whenever time allows. I have a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City and a Bachelor's degree in English literature from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Fiction has always been my first love, but I started my career in journalism to gain exposure to a wide variety of experiences, places and people because I believed it would inform and enrich my stories. I’m utterly fascinated by the inner lives of people, particularly women, and if I were ever to discover a way, you may see me trying to climb into people’s heads.
While doing my graduate degree at Columbia, I was really intrigued to find some American women converting to Islam because the religion appealed to them from a gender perspective. So I wrote my Master’s thesis on the subject. A groundbreaking piece, it was published in Newsday, a major American newspaper. Soon after, leading reference book publisher H.W. Wilson included the work in a compilation of important articles on religion in politics and society from esteemed national publications such as The New York Times and Atlantic Monthly.
I grew up in New Delhi, India (actually, I’m still growing up:) where I was raised mostly secular, loosely Hindu, and attended Catholic School. Passionate about languages since childhood, I speak English, Hindi, and Urdu along with a smattering of Punjabi, and Spanish. I remain connected to India where I return to for long periods every year unless the pandemic kills my plans. I’m afflicted by chronic wanderlust and traveled to several countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Italy, France, Spain, China, Thailand and Brazil before having kids. A global citizen at heart, I often dream of living in different countries.
I feel incredibly fortunate to be represented by Jennifer Lyons of Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency whose clients have included luminaries like Jesmyn Ward who made history by becoming the first woman and African-American to win the National Book Award for fiction twice. The agency also represents the estates of Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean Poet and first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and Oscar Hijuelos, the Cuban-American novelist and first Hispanic writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
