Radha Vatsal is the author of the Kitty Weeks mystery novels set in World War I era New York. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, CrimeReads, and more. Born and raised in Mumbai, India, Radha received her Ph.D. in film history from Duke University. She used to be fluent in Russian, which she studied at the House of Soviet Culture in Mumbai (then Bombay). She has traveled on the Tran-Siberian Railroad, and for one summer, worked as a translator in the Far East of Russia, near the Russian-Chinese border. 
Radha now lives and works in New York City. Her new novel “No. 10 Doyers Street” will be published in March 2025.