Umi Sinha
Umi Sinha was born and grew up in India. She has an MA in creative writing and taught creative writing at the University of Sussex for 10 years and on the MA at Brighton University. She is a founding member of The GuestHouse Storytellers, an oral storytelling club based in Newhaven. She teaches creative writing and offers mentoring and manuscript appraisal for writers through her Writing Clinic website. She is also a member of Writer’s Mosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund, and is on the board of Writing Our Legacy, which enables Black, Asian, and ethnically diverse people to tell their stories through writing and the creative arts.
Umi writes historical fiction. Her debut novel, Belonging (2015), set in India and Britain between 1855 and 1919, was shortlisted for several awards, including the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. Her second novel, The Fallen, currently with an agent, is set in Italy and India between 1943 and 1949.
Current as of February 2024
