Menaka Raman is a children’s book author and communications consultant. She is the author of a number of books for children including How to Reach Mars and Other (Im)Possible Things (2023), The Great Escape (2022), and Loki Takes Guard (2020) which won the Valley of Words Award for Writing for Young Adults. Her stories about parenting have appeared in India’s leading newspapers and her stories have been included in anthologies published by major Indian 7publishers. She is also a senior producer at Vaaka Media an independent podcast production house in Bengaluru.