Nimai Agarwal is a young author and
scholar who has been homeschooled along with taking
classes at the Stanford University Online High
School and the Friends Meeting School of Ijamsville,
Maryland. He has been writing and editing his novel,
Lotus Saga, since 2010 when he was 12 years old.
Since 2011 he has been working with an online international
teen magazine, Kidspirit Online. Nimai has
published several articles with Kidspirit and The
Huffington Post. He also heads the Maryland/DC
editorial board for Kidspirit.

Nimai has attended both the Iowa Young Writers’
Studio and the Kenyon Review Young Writer’s
Workshop. His writings have received several awards
including prestigious Scholastic Writing and Arts
awards and first place in the Maryland Letters About
Literature Award in 2010 for his letter, Who Am I?. His
essay A Fresh Look was published in Kidspirit and republished
on The Huffington Post where it received
400 comments.

In 2015, at the Parliament of World Religions
held in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nimai was one of only
seven kids who spoke although there were hundreds
of panels. Nimai brought his openness to the spiritual
paths of others as well as his own commitment to the
Vaishnava branch of Hinduism. He currently lives in
Maryland with his parents,