Meera Krishnamurthy

Meera Godbole-Krishnamurthy was born in Mumbai in 1968 and has since 1980, lived in the Philippines, France, and many parts of the United States. She studied art and architecture at Oberlin College and Columbia University and received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1992. She has participated in writing workshops at Stanford University, the University of Iowa, UC San Diego and the La Jolla Writers Conference. She was an adjunct at the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego. An artist, she has sold and exhibited her work in California. She returned to India in 2006 and after a year in Bangalore, now lives in Mumbai with her husband, two children, and a well-travelled cat. She sometimes conducts writing workshops. Balancing Act is her first novel and explores themes of architecture, built space, the life and work of Louis Kahn, the Salk Institute, motherhood, feminism, and the implications of the creative life.