Alka Joshi is The New York Times best­selling author of The Hen­na Artist, The Secret Keep­er of Jaipur and The Per­fumist of Paris. Longlist­ed for the Cen­ter for Fic­tion First Nov­el Prize, The Hen­na Artist was a Reese With­er­spoon Book Club Pick and has been trans­lat­ed into 29 lan­guages. Alka grad­u­at­ed from Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty (BA ​’80) and Cal­i­for­nia Col­lege of Arts (MFA ​’11).