Meghaa Gupta has worked in Indian children’s publishing for over a decade and writes on history and the environment for young and lay readers. Her picture book A Home of Our Own (Tulika, 2018) is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Book Club. She is also the author of a critically-acclaimed series of history books on Independent India published by the children’s imprint of Penguin Random House – Unearthed: An Environmental History of Independent India (2020) and After Midnight: A History of Independent India (2022).

Meghaa holds a Masters in Environmental Humanities from the UK and leads the Young People’s programme at the Green Literature Festival.