Shveta Thakrar

Shveta Thakrar writes young adult fantasy that draws deeply on Hindu mythology and cosmology, filtered through influences ranging from fairy-tale tradition to video games like The Legend of Zelda. She is best known for Star Daughter (2020), which follows Sheetal Mistry, the daughter of a star and a human, as she is drawn into the celestial world of her mother's people; the novel was a finalist for the Andre Norton Nebula Award and was praised for its lyrical prose and mythic imagination, with critics comparing it to Neil Gaiman's Stardust. It opened the Night Market Triptych, continued in The Dream Runners (2022) and Divining the Leaves (2025), which follow characters navigating dreams, desire, and the porous boundary between the mundane and the magical.