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Sandhya Menon
Sandhya Menon is an Indian American author based in Colorado, United States. She is the author of New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met Rishi and From Twinkle, with Love.
Menon grew up in India and is a die-hard fan of Bollywood films. She moved to the US from India when she was fifteen years old. She had a hard-time growing up in two different cultures and says that she always wanted to be a writer, but her family pressured her to study medicine.
Menon writes young adult fiction for teenagers and rom-coms, often with Indian-American protagonists. Her first book When Dimple Met Rishi was published in 2017. It's a young adult rom-com about two Indian-American teenagers, Dimple and Rishi, whose parents are trying to arrange their marriage. The book was published by Hachette and was a New York Times bestseller. The book was adapted into the Netflix series Mismatched in 2020.