YA author and Princeton High School alum Karen Bao discusses her newest book, "Pangu's Shadow," with local author Shveta Thakrar.
The authors will discuss their writing process and how real-life experiences can inspire fantastical worlds.
Attendees may purchase Bao's "Pangu's Shadow" and Thakrar's "Star Daughter" at the event.
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Karen Bao does science in the lab, then goes home and writes about it. A recent doctoral\ graduate of Harvard University, she studies mosquito brains by blasting them with an electron beam. Her favorite activities include cooking, tending her plants, singing, and playing her violin. She is the author of "Pangu’s Shadow," and the "Dove Chronicle"s trilogy and is a contributor to the YA mental health anthology "Ab(solutely) Normal."
Shveta Thakrar is a part-time nagini and full-time believer in magic. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Enchanted Living, Uncanny Magazine, A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, and Toil & Trouble. Her debut young adult fantasy novel, "Star Daughter," was a finalist for the 2021 Andre Norton Nebula Award, and her second and third novels, "The Dream Runners" and the forthcoming "Divining the Leaves," take place in the same universe. Her adult fantasy novella, "Into the Moon Garden", is available as an original audiobook from Audible. When not spinning stories about spider silk and shadows, magic and marauders, and courageous girls illuminated by dancing rainbow flames, Shveta crafts, devours books, daydreams, travels, bakes, and occasionally even plays her harp.
