Chitra Ramaswamy

Chitra Ramaswamy is an award-winning journalist with more than ten years’ experience. Expecting, her first book, won the Saltire Society Best First Book Award and was widely praised. As a journalist, Chitra cut her teeth at The Big Issue before moving to The Scotsman, where she became one of the newspaper’s leading columnists, book reviewers, interviewers and feature writers. Now a freelancer, Chitra writes regularly for a number of publications, including The Guardian, and often chairs events at festivals and regularly reviews on radio.