Visi Tilak is a journalist and author with bylines in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, US News and World Report, Boston Globe, among others.  She was one of  the winners of the 2015 International Twitter Fiction Festival, where she live tweeted a "story in tweets". Her essays have also won awards from Writer’s Digest Magazine. She is actively involved as a board member with many town councils and not-for-profit groups in the areas of culture, art and writing.
A die-hard vegetarian foodie, she edits two blogs. Besides a YA Novel in verse, picture book manuscripts, a collection of short stories and a non-fiction book, she is currently at work on her second YA novel and memoir. Also a ceramics and fine artist, she lives in the Boston Metro area with her husband and two children. More on her at www.visitilak.com. Her articles are available to read at http://visitlak.contently.com