Kavery Nambisan

Kavery Nambisan has written seven novels including The Scent of Pepper, On Wings of Butterflies and A Town Like Ours. She has also written several works of non-fiction including a medical memoir titled A Luxury Called Health and Cherry Red, Cherry Black: The Coffee Story. She was a Fellow at the International Writers Workshop in the University of Iowa in 2007 and was also one of the thirteen writers from various countries invited to Greece for a Fullbright-sponsored symposium on “Home/Homelands” in 2008.

A trained surgeon, she has worked in rural areas in Bihar, UP, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Kavery was married to the late poet and writer Vijay Nambisan.