Sayantani DasGupta

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-11-01

Sayantani DasGupta was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Ohio and New Jersey. She studied at Brown University and earned an M.D. and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University. She is a physician trained in pediatrics and public health, and she teaches in the Master's Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and in the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also an associate editor of the journal Literature and Medicine. Alongside her academic writing and speaking on gender, race, storytelling and medical education, she writes fiction for young readers, including the Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series, and she has published a memoir and several edited volumes.

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Books

• The Serpent's Secret (2018) · Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Core Canon
• Game of Stars (2019) · Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Core Canon
• The Chaos Curse (2020) · Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Core Canon
• Force of Fire (2021) · Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Core Canon
• Crown of Flames (2022) · Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Core Canon
• The Chaos Monster (2023) · Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Core Canon
• The Poison Waves (2023) · Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Core Canon
• The Ghost Forest (2024) · Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 8 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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