Mahtab is a Persian name and it means moonlight. She was born in Mumbai, India and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1997. The settling-in process involved quite a steep learning curve and much anxiety. You can read about it in an anthology released by Penguin Canada earlier this year called PIECE BY PIECE: Stories about Fitting Into Canada.

The catalyst that started Mahtab down the path of writing was a tragic one and she will talk about it during her presentation.

THE THIRD EYE took four years and twenty rewrites before making it to publication. In her presentation, Mahtab will describe this heart-wrenching journey, how close she came to giving up and what kept her going. THE THIRD EYE went on to win the Silver Birch Fiction Award 2009 and an entertainment company has recently renewed their options on this property towards making it into a full length feature film.

Its sequel, THE SILVER ANKLET, was released in November 2009 and has received great reviews including a four star review in the CM Magazine and is Highly Recommended in Canadian Resource Links.

The last book in the Tara Trilogy called THE DEADLY CONCH was released by Dundurn in January 2011.

THE TIFFIN, a gritty middle-grade novel was released in September 2011 by Dancing Cat Books; an Imprint of Cormorant Books Inc. It is based in the Bombay of her childhood and is a unique story with themes of family and relationships.

Mahtab lives in Toronto with her husband, Rahul , son, Aftab and her golden, Coby and continues to write, inspired by life, love and the desire to make sense of the world through stories.

Books by Mahtab Narsimhan

Mission Mumbai: A Novel of Sacred Cows, Snakes, and Stolen Toilets

by Mahtab Narsimhan - Children's, Children's 9-12, Friendship