Sonia Patel, represented by Victoria Wells Arms, writes out of her experience as a first-generation Indian-American born in New York and raised in Hawaii, an experience lushly and brilliantly explored in her debut novel, Rani Patel in Full Effect. Rani was a finalist for the Morris Award, received four-starred reviews from trade magazines, and was listed on YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults and Kirkus Reviews’ Best Teen Books of 2016. Her subsequent YA novels, Jaya and Rasa: A Love Story and Bloody Seoul, both received the In the Margins Book Award. She was a jury member for the renowned 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist trained at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii, Patel has spent over fifteen years providing individual and family psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and their families. She lives in Honolulu with her husband, two teens, and dog.
