Former television journalist and producer for CNBC and MTV, and East India head for Australasian Channel [V], Shreya Sen-Handley is the author of three books with HarperCollins, the award-winning Memoirs of My Body, published in 2017, Strange, a modern tales of the unexpected, published in 2019, and a forthcoming book of travel misadventures, to be published in 2022. 

A librettist for the Welsh National Opera, the first South Asian woman to have written an international opera according to the press, their multicultural opera Migrations will go on tour in the UK in 2022. She has also written and illustrated for WNO’s series of films in 2020, Creating Change, and will be collaborating with them on a second opera in 2023. 

Shreya is a columnist for the international media, writing for the National Geographic, CNN, Times of India, The Guardian, and more. Her essays on politics, literature, travel, and gender, can be found in anthologies such as the University of East Anglia’s Writing Places in 2019, and Hodder Education’s Secondary School English textbook Detectives in 2020.

Her short stories have been published, broadcast, and shortlisted for prizes in Britain, India and Australia. Her poetry, published, broadcast, and performed, in Britain and India, spearheaded a British national campaign against hate crimes in 2020. For excellence in writing for a range of genres and artforms, she won the Most Versatile Writer award at NWS Writing Awards 2018.

A creative writing teacher for British institutions, including the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham, Shreya is an illustrator as well, for Hachette, HarperCollins, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, Nottingham City Council, and Welsh National Opera. 

A regular commentator on culture and current affairs for the BBC and other media, she is a National Literacy Trust Champion, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature collaborative board member, and a former Nottingham Festival of Literature director. 

Currently working on getting her HarperCollins travelogue ready for publication, while writing her new novel and her monthly columns for popular Asian newspapers The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle, Shreya lives with her two children, husband, dog, books, unfinished paintings and jars of spices, in Sherwood Forest.