Varsha Bajaj grew up in Mumbai, India, the heart of Bollywood. As a girl she loved reading and attending children's theater. When Varsha moved to Missouri for graduate school, she found that America was familiar because of the books she had read and the movies she had seen. After graduate school she worked as a psychotherapist counseling children and families. Later she moved to Houston, Texas, where she raised her family and began writing children's books.