South Asian Kidlit Creators
An opt-in list of South Asian and South Asian diaspora writers and/or illustrators who create children's and YA literature. Published, self-published, and unpublished included. Folks who are biracial, multiracial, LGBTQIA+, and folks with other marginalized identities included.
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@amitha.bsky.social
@bijhan.bsky.social
Transfeminine Muslim anarchist comics author, novel author, and game designer. BC Lions fan. Married to @raeraenicorrrn.bsky.social ENG: JamsheedStudios.com ESP: JamsheedStudios.com/esp.html
@taslinpollock.bsky.social
Writer | Contemporary MG | Scottish Book Trust New Writer Awardee 2024 | S1 Leeds Literary LL 2024 | All Stories Mentee 2022 | HarperCollins Academy 2022 | Searchlight Novel Opening SL 2022 | Golden Egg Award SL 2022 | she/her
@sitawrites.bsky.social
Author of Picture Books 🇮🇳🇺🇸 BIRDS OF A FEATHER MANGO MEMORIES Upcoming titles: LET’S CELEBRATE DIWALI INDIGO HANDS
@svaniparekh.bsky.social
Writer: 📺 Ghee Happy (Emmy Nominee & Annie Winner), Netflix, BBC, Sesame Street, Cartoon Network, Disney etc 📚GRANPHIBIAN I | Dragons - Snow Problem (Oxford) ✨Flash: The Punch, Jellyfish Review etc Rep: Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson svaniparekh.com
@rgspaulding.bsky.social
Author/illustrator #12x12 #PB #MG #engineer #STEAM #scbwi #2021PBParty Finalist. Will not engage in DMs from unknown people. www.rgspaulding.com
@abeehatariqart.bsky.social
Pakistani and Irish illustrator currently in Edinburgh ✨ www.abeehatariq.com https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AbeehaTariq
@natashabpadhiar.bsky.social
Illustrator | Writer | Dream Believer Debut Picture Book: QUIET KUSH Www.brightandbluestudio.com
@amberinhuq.bsky.social
Children's illustrator. Drawer of pictures, colourer of spaces, writer of moments. Rep'd by The Plum Agency She/Her
@mahendra.bsky.social
Illustrator and author, ie., hopeless dreamer. Montreal, Earth. https://campsite.bio/mahendra_singh
@reshveen.bsky.social
Educator 🇦🇺 Zumba - yoga enthusiast. Cats and books 📚❤️ Member of 12x12 PB challenge Aspiring #kidlit writer ✍️ Feminist Mountain dweller
@anuanew.bsky.social
Howdy, I’m vron, a cartoonist / illustrator!!! I love sunflowers, summertime, and dogs!! ☆ let's be pals! (She / her, 30 y/o) ☆ email: wisbaemail@gmail.com ☆
@eyefry.bsky.social
Writer-illustrator, BSFA and CWSS finalist, lapsed magazine editor and craft beer branding guy, design prof., music nerd, cat wrangler, tragic anti-hero. #createdontscrape #humanart #illustrator #kidlit #SFF #music #design www.mixtape.in
@vaishalikgrover.bsky.social
Kids & YA #Writer for Fic + Narrative NF. Champion of inclusive, diverse storytelling and sustainability. (she/her: BIPOC: queer) #amquerying www.vaishalikgrover.com
@shrurao.bsky.social
Author of 17 books in US and India #12x12PB #STEAM #NF KADOOBOO! (Page Street, 2024) A MELODY IN MYSORE (Duckbill/PRH, 2024) WHEN SCIENCE STOOD STILL (McElderry/S&S, 2025) THE FIRST GIRL ON STAGE (Yali, 2025) https://shruthi-rao.com
@soumiroy1.bsky.social
Author. Artist. Repped by @antoinight.bsky.social and @natalielakosil.bsky.social at @lookingglasslit.bsky.social These Bodies Ain't Broken (Page Street 2025) Best of the Net Nominee https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-soumi
@jayashree-megan.bsky.social
🇮🇳🇸🇪Desi+Swedish💖💜💙 (she/her) 18yrs as a bookseller (Borders, B&N, Red Ballon) #booksellerJaya 📚 Reader & writer of fantasy, romance, & horror. Painter of animals & goddesses. 📍Minneapolis MN 📖2025: 7/30
@bydhiyanah.bsky.social
(she/they) Artist, Writer 📍M'sia • 🌈☪️🕉️♾️🎨 • No a/i 💚 Folio: https://bydhiyanah.carrd.co/ 🌸 Bookings: https://forms.gle/xbdSuuQRwwfAMEmP6 🎨 Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/bydhiyanah/ 🍯 Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bydhiyanah
@ayidashonibar.bsky.social
writer of dark & wistful speculative fiction words in SILK & SINEW (Bad Hand Books), WILTED PAGES (Shortwave Publishing), NIGHT OF THE LIVING QUEERS (Wednesday Books), NATURE FUTURES, TRANSMOGRIFY! (Harper Teen), & more 🌈 she/they ayidashonibar.com
@sayantani.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of children’s and YA books, Health Humanities Academic https://linktr.ee/sayantanidasgupta?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e40bc45d-a2e4-4923-9b4a-2674c3c19b21
@noreenmughees.bsky.social
Writer,dreamer, unapologetically Muslim, chai addict. The Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed,2023 My Big Fat Desi Wedding, 2024 #amquering…send hugs!
@tarasimauthor.bsky.social
Author of THE CITY OF DUSK (Orbit), WE SHALL BE MONSTERS (Penguin), Scavenge the Stars, & Timekeeper. Biracial/desi. Grumpy. BLM. She/her.
@priyajsridhar.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writer, nerdy nonfiction writer and copywriter.
@nameshiv.bsky.social
Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in @strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net.
@swingingstorm.bsky.social
Author | Creativity coach | Sufi mystic | Refugee & indigenous rights organizer 🇮🇷 🇹🇿 🇮🇳 🇦🇫 🇵🇸 🇦🇿 (my ancestors really got around) Posts about books, human rights, chaos baking, old poetry & folklore, and other nerd stuff Rep Seth Fishman
@karunariazi.bsky.social
Kidlit author. Blasian Muslim magical girl. Always dreaming. Latest: A BIT OF EARTH (Greenwillow 2023). Next: SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (Greenwillow 2025). Hamline MFAC July '21 | Rep: Thao Le No means to donate currently 💔
@rajsolankiart.bsky.social
Cartoonist of Ravana’s Relics! Read the comic! Or get it straight to your inbox! 💥: www.RavanasRelics.com ✉️: rajsolankiart.substack.com
@ralfsingh.bsky.social
German-Asian Comicbook Creator and Game Developer ZINNOBER @ Scout Comics / Dead Diver THE IMPURE @ Scout Comics / Cross Cult My portfolio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10OzV6VtZHZtqZ6a-xEBGLiVvEjPUylTZ/view?usp=sharing
@nidhiart.bsky.social
Bestselling author (!!) 📚PASHMINA, SUPER BOBA CAFÉ, JUKEBOX, STRONG, SHARK PRINCESS, I WILL BE FIERCE and more Rep Jodi Reamer at Writers House
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Author. Opinions=own. She/Her. Writing your fav characters. Rep: Michael Bourret. Co-host on the Official Marvel Podcast. Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot is out now! www.preetichhibber.com Profile illustration by James Lancett
@sonesone2.bsky.social
Author Symptoms of a Heartbreak, How Maya Got Fierce, Tiny Pretty Things, The Rumor Game | Screenwriter | Journalist | Senior Editor, Scholastic | traveler @ishqinabackpack | #adhd creative | #Chaitime | mama
@jyotigopal.bsky.social
American Desi, writer/teacher/mom. Passionate about books, play, SWI. #12x12 #SCBWI @PBcrew22 @PBSpree @upliftkidlit @WendiLuluGu @HGLiterary linktr.ee/jyotirajangopal
@rajanilarocca.bsky.social
2022 Newbery Honoree, Walter Award, Golden Kite winner. Doctor, author of MG & PB, fiction & nonfiction, prose & poetry. Pro-democracy, pro-reproductive freedom, anti-book bans. Rep: Brent Taylor www.RajaniLaRocca.com
@gitaralleigh.bsky.social
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽♀️ (Bad Betty Press) https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
@toondoon1010.bsky.social
🎨 Illustrator & Cartoonist (she/her) 📚 Clients include Scholastic, PRH, HarperCollins US, Beaming Books US & more. 📝 Rep'd by Claire Draper (Azantian Literary Agency) 🌐 www.aishwaryatandon.com
@rekhasalin.bsky.social
Children Illustrator passionate of storytelling, colors. I love telling exciting stories through pictures #scbwi member Www.rekhasalin.com Repped by ASH literary Newsletter- https://rekhasalin.substack.com/
@monishabajaj.bsky.social
Professor & scholar of peace, human rights, migration & education University of San Francisco (views posted here are my own) Debut picture book A YEAR OF KITES out in 2026 with Bloomsbury www.monishabajaj.net Pronouns: she/her/वह
@amitha.bsky.social
Award-winning author and poet, identical twin, parent, MD (not practicing). Also: guitar, piano, bharatanatyam student. Boston area, MA, USA. Rep: @karisutherland.bsky.social www.amithaknight.com She/her