Born in India and raised in the U.S. since she was nine, Alka Joshi has a BA from Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty and an MFA from Cal­i­for­nia Col­lege of Arts. Joshi’s debut nov­el, The Hen­na Artist, imme­di­ate­ly became a NYT best­seller, a Reese With­er­spoon Book­club pick, was Longlist­ed for the Cen­ter for Fic­tion First Nov­el Prize, & is in devel­op­ment at Net­flix as a TV series. The Secret Keep­er of Jaipur (2021) and The Per­fumist of Paris (2023) com­plet­ed the Jaipur Tril­o­gy. Her fourth nov­el, Six Days in Bom­bay, will be released in Feb­ru­ary 2025. She is cur­rent­ly work­ing on her fifth nov­el. In 2024, Joshi was select­ed for the Forbes 50 over 50 List, cel­e­brat­ing women who are shat­ter­ing age and gen­der norms across all sec­tors of the Amer­i­can econ­o­my and culture.