Pia Padukone is a writer and a proud native of New York City, where many of her stories take place. A graduate of Stuyvesant High School and the London School of Economics, Pia entered the professional writing world as a copywriter for advertising agencies. Pia was a finalist in the Seventeen Magazine Fiction Writing Contest and received a fiction-writing award from Women on Writing. Her debut novel, WHERE EARTH MEETS WATER, will be published in May 2014 by Harlequin MIRA in 12 countries and translated into 7 languages.