Vee Kumari switched from an academic career to one of writing and acting since 2012. “Dharma” is her debut novel, inspired by her love of the mystery genre and based on her observations of the Indian immigrant and Indian American lives in the US. She is at work on her next novel about an Indian immigrant family whose American dream shatters when one of their twin daughters goes missing.

She is also an actor who has appeared in TV shows, including Criminal Minds and Glow, and produced and was the lead in a short film, Halwa, which garnered first prize in HBO’s 2019 APAV contest. 

Vee lives in Burbank near her daughters and their families.