Finding Agency Through Writing

Join internationally bestselling author Alka Joshi for an engaging writing workshop.

Alka Joshi will lead a writing workshop using the act of writing as a tool to discover and express your own voice, perspective, and power. She will share insights into her writing process and the inspirations behind her stories.

The Jaipur Trilogy is vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between traditional and modern India, the novels open a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel.

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Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick, an LA Times Bestseller, a Toronto Star Bestseller, an Indie Bookstores Bestseller, a Cosmopolitan Best Audiobook, and an Amazon and Goodreads favorite. It was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and has been translated into 29 languages. languages. It’s currently in development at Netflix as an episodic series. Alka’s writing career began at the age of 62. In 2023, Forbes selected Alka as one of 50 Women Over 50 who are shattering age and gender norms across America. Alka was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. Her fourth novel, Six Days in Bombay, releases April 15, 2025.