Prachi Sharma is the founder of The Sapling Press, a Bay Area children's publishing house, and the author of Manju: A Life of Grit, Grace and Greatness and Paws Around the World. Her writing has appeared in The Arunachal Times and Northeast Now, including a July 2026 piece on KQED's Perspectives ('A Daughter's Bookshelf') and a forthcoming feature in India Currents.