Originally from Mumbai, India, Minoti Vaishnav immigrated to the United States on her own as a teenager. She is a former singer/songwriter with three albums under her belt, and is currently a television writer and producer in Los Angeles, as well as a current student in the low-residency Masters in Creative Writing program at the University of Oxford. Her work has been published in Verve Magazine and Documentary Magazine, and her teleplays have earned her winning placements at New York TV Festival and in ISA's Emerging Screenwriters Competition.