Maya Khankhoje was born in Mexico to an Indian father and Belgian mother and is the mother of two young women. She started writing in India, stopped for a few years while she raised a family in Mexico, and began writing again in Montreal, where she has been working as a simultaneous interpreter for a United Nations agency for the last sixteen years. She writes mainly in English, although she has published some work in Spanish and French. She has won a few awards for her fiction, poetry and rpsoe. She is involved with the peace movement and women's issues and loves travel, especially on environmental expeditions.