Mukta Singh-Zocchi, born in Ithaca, USA, grew up in New Delhi. She graduated majoring in Physics from Hindu College, Delhi University, and came to the US for higher studies. She has a Ph.D. in physics and as a researcher she has taken jobs which gave her the opportunity to live in many different countries, all new to her. Mukta believes that meeting a variety of people and unexpected situations are the main reason for her to turn to story-writing. Furthermore, spending her impressionable years in a city like Delhi, she feels, is the reason she is inclined to write historical fiction. She has written two novels, The Thugs and a Courtesan (Srishti 2014) and Game of Big Numbers (eKalpanaKitab 2018). It was a writing award for her short story “Fire of Desire” that made Ms Singh-Zocchi take her writing career seriously. Since then several of her short stories have been published both in the US and in India. She has written short stories in Hindi and in English. She also manages and curates Hindi fiction at eKalpana.net, a literary magazine for Hindi fiction.