You Bring the Distant Near (Perkins) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Born—Kolkata, India
• Education—University of California-Berkeley
• Currently—lives in the San Francisco Bay area, California


Mitali Perkins is an Indian-American writer, the author of 10 books for young readers. She was born in Kolkata (Calcuta), India, but by the time she was 11, she had lived in six different countries on three different continents, plus an island: India, Ghana, Cameroon, London, New York and Mexico. The family finally settled in California, in the US, when Mitali was just entering her teens.

Perkins attended the University of California-Berkeley, where she studied political science. Later, she taught in the elementary and middle-school grades, as well as college.

She currently resides in San Francisco, California, where she is married to a Presbyterian minister. Pekins is currently a lecturer at Saint Mary's College of California. (Adapted from the author's website.)