She is currently living in San Francisco Bay area with her husband who is a Presbyterian Church minister. When she is not writing she has been pursuing her lifelong passion of traveling across the globe and the US, which have taken her to Newton, Southern California, Thailand, India, and Bangladesh. She also teaches at the Saint Mary’s College of California as an Adjunct Professor.
Besides writing, she loves to attend conferences to discuss themes such as the life changing power of storytelling, and books between cultures. She has written over ten novels for young readers most of which have been published by Macmillan Children’s Books, Little Brown, Candlewick, Charlesbridge, and Penguin Random House. Unsurprisingly her fiction was about strong multicultural protagonists looking to promote justice or bridge different cultures. After college, she went on to teach middle school, high school, and college before she began writing fiction. Berkeley where she studied public policy and then political science at Stanford. Books became her refuge as she moved between her Bengali culture and the California suburbia, where the family finally decided to make a home.įor her college studies, Mitali went to U.C. Her biggest lifeline during those early years was novels. Given that she moved so much in her childhood, she knows about multiculturalism and identity issues, as she was often the new kid in school more times than she can count. Some countries that she lived in include Mexico, London, Cameroon, Ghana, and India, before the family settled in California. However, the United States and India were not the only country she lived in, as by the time she was eleven she had lived in over five countries. Mitali Perkins was born Mitale Bose in Kolkata India to a Bengali father, before she moved to the United States where she spent most of her childhood. Mitali Perkins is a Young Adult and Children’s novel author who has made a name for herself writing highly popular and critically acclaimed novels, which address several contemporary themes.
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