About Gigi

Gigi Pandian is the child of two cultural anthropologists, one from the southern tip of India, the other from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She graduated with honors in political studies from Pitzer College, and went on to graduate school to study comparative social policy at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the University of Bath in England before realizing that she was much better suited to writing about the fictional adventures of academics than being one herself.

She left academia for art school, and is now the graphic designer and publication production manager at the ACLU of Northern California. After being awarded a 2007 William F. Deeck Malice Domestic writers grant for her mystery novel about a historian who discovers a long-lost treasure from India, her book was a finalist in the 2009 St. Martin's Press / Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery competition.

Gigi is on the Board of the Sisters in Crime Northern California Chapter, and is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Romance Writers of America. She is also an avid participant in National Novel Writing Month. (You can read what she has to say about the benefits of NaNoWriMo.)

Contact Gigi at gigi [at] gigipandian.com.