Anjali Mitter Duva is a writer who grew up in France and has family roots in Calcutta. She is a co-founder of Chhandika, an organization that teaches and presents India's classical kathak dance. Anjali graduated from Brown University and completed her Master's in city planning at MIT. She lives near Boston with her husband and two daughters. FAINT PROMISE OF RAIN is Anjali's first novel. She is working on the second, set in 19th-century Lucknow.