Welcome to Season 3 of the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with fantasy author Mona Tewari.

Mona Tewari has long been fascinated by the ways in which the narratives of legends and histories shape our views of the present. A graduate of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and UCSF, Tewari practiced as a pediatric dentist for years before turning to writing fiction in her favorite genre: fantasy. As the daughter of two immigrants from India, she didn’t see herself represented in popular media while growing up and became determined to show her daughters they belong in every world. Burn the Sea is her first novel.

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