Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy

Meera Godbole-Krishnamurthy writes fiction rooted in architecture. She is the author of Gardens of Love (Speaking Tiger, 2018), which she has also illustrated, and Balancing Act (Penguin/Zubaan, 2009), a novel about architecture and motherhood. She was born in Mumbai in 1968, she has lived in the Philippines, France, and the United States. She studied art and architecture at Oberlin College and Columbia University, and received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1992. She has studied writing in workshops at Stanford University, the University of Iowa Summer Festival, UCSD, and the La Jolla Writers Conference. She has taught at the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego. Since moving to India in 2006, she has been an architecture educator, conducted writing workshops, and been a contributor to Metropolis magazine. She now lives in Mumbai and is Editor-in-Chief of Saffronart. Her next architecture themed novel is presently under construction.

Visit her Facebook pages for updates on Gardens of Love and Balancing Act

https://www.facebook.com/GardensofLovebook/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Balancing-Act/148596345169634?ref=ts

The author speaks about fiction, architecture and her books at a panel on The Secret Lives of Buildings

https://youtu.be/h4ro9vJcRY8

Watch a conversation with the author at the Mumabi Launch of Gardens of Love

https://www.facebook.com/AsiaSocietyIC/videos/10155908290675528/UzpfSTE3NTM4NzUxNjEzNTYxNTE6MTc1MzkwMTI1NDY4Njg3NQ/

About the writing of Balancing Act

http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/March-2012/The-Prose-and-Kahn-of-Designing-an-Architecture-of-Motherhood/

Read an author interview about writing, architecture and motherhood on

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/on-the-map-constructing-feminist-motherhood

And here:

http://punemirror.in/index.aspx?page=article§id=63&contentid=2010022520100225230103271792c0773§xslt=&pageno=1

http://mybangalore.com/article/1109/meera-krishnamurthy-setting-stage-for-the-balancing-act-.html