Umi Sinha has an MA in Creative Writing and taught at the University of Sussex for ten years. She teaches creative writing classes and workshops, runs a performance storytelling club, and offers a mentoring and manuscript appraisal service for writers called Writing Clinic. She is also a trained mediator and trustee at her local community centre. She has had short ... Read morestories published, including in Cosmopolitan magazine and in a Serpent Tail's anthology. She was born and grew up in Mumbai (then Bombay) before moving to the UK, and now lives in Newhaven. Belonging is her first novel. Show Less