Lini S. Kadaba is a national award-winning journalist who spent nearly 25 years working as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. Since 2010, she has worked as a freelance lifestyle, education, business and health writer. Her work continues to appear in the Inquirer as well as the Saturday Evening Post and numerous college publications, including the Pennsylvania Gazette, Drexel University's EXEL and Haverford Magazine.

Lini is a master's graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a former president and current treasurer of the Pennsylvania Press Club. She recently completed her first novel, Leftovers After Life, and is in negotiations with a publishing house.