Meenu Mehrotra

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About the Author

Meenu Mehrotra has been associated with writing for last 20 years. Her work has appeared in national magazines and newspapers when she was working as a Copywriter with various advertising agencies. She won a special mention in the Gentleman Public Service Advertising Award- 1993 for her campaign on Aids Awareness.
Her articles have appeared in Times of India, Gurgaon edition as well. Many short stories and poems of hers have been posted on the net and she has won the 3rd prize in a writing competition, organized by an Australian website –brightlightmultimedia.com for her poem- "Mother and Child"
Ms. Meenu has done her honors in English Literature followed by a post graduate diploma in Public Relations and Advertising from YMCA, Delhi. She has successfully completed an online course in Fiction Writing by Jerry Cleaver – writer, teacher and writing coach who created The Writers' Loft, Chicago's most successful independent writers' workshop for the last twenty years.
Ms. Meenu feels that her varied experiences have given her deep insights into human nature as well as the tenacity, courage, fearlessness and restlessness to aim high. It has also imparted in her an intimate understanding of the frailty of emotions and encouraged her to be an out -of –the- box thinker and push the limits of imagination, which is an essential trait for a fiction writer.
Her work and experience has certainly sharpened her capacity to visualize and taught her to be a good listener along with being acutely aware of the environment around.
SUNLIT HEARTS is her second novel which is now going into the second edition.
Her first novel- Lilacs bloom in my backyard was published in 2008 by Rupa Publications and went into the second edition.
Her first book of poems, SOUNDS OF DESIRE was released in November 2012 and has already sold its first edition and is all set for a second edition as well.
Ms. Meenu lives in Dubai, UAE where she is at work on her next novel.

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