Meera Ekkanath Klein learned the art of vegetarian Indian cooking in her own mother’s kitchen. My Mother’s Kitchen: A novel with recipes is her first full-length novel. The book was named Finalist in the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award in the multi-cultural fiction category.  Her work has appeared in As/Us: Writers of the World and in Eternal Snow, an anthology put together by Nepalese poet Yuyustu Sharma.