Vee KumariVee Kumari grew up in the south of India. A lover of books, her favorite authors were Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Upon coming to the US, Vee earned a doctorate in Anatomy and became a faculty member at the UC Davis Medical Center, where se worked for over 35 years and later at the Keck School of Medicine for five years.. She published many scientific papers and won several teaching awards. When she retired in 2012, she took classes from The Gotham Writers' Workshop and UCLA Writers Program, and had the privilege to have authors Lynn Hightower and Caroline Leavitt as her mentors. Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery is her debut fiction that incorporates her observations on the lives of Indian immigrants and Indian American in the US. Vee lives in Burbank near her daughters and their families. She is also an actor who has appeared in TV shows, including Criminal Minds and Glow, and produced and was the lead in a short film, Halwa, which garnered first prize in HBO's 2019 APAV contest. She is at work on her next novel about an Indian immigrant family whose American dream shatters when one of their twin daughters goes missing. Read More Read Less