Umi Sinha is a writer, storyteller, and creative writing tutor and mentor. She was born and grew up in India and moved to Britain as teenager, though she still has strong connections with India. Her father was of Indian/Nepalese, and her mother of English, and possibly German Jewish, heritage.
She is the author of Belonging (published 2015 by Myriad Editions) and has taught creative writing at Sussex and Brighton Universities and for The Creative Writing Programme. Her new novel, The Fallen, will be out with Salt Publishing in June 2027.
She co-founded and for 16 years co-ran The GuestHouse Storytellers, an oral performance storytelling club based in Newhaven, East Sussex, once described by storyteller Xanthe Gresham as ‘the best storytelling club in the country’.
She is a board member of Writing Our Legacy, runs Reading Rounds for The Royal Literary Fund, and is a volunteer mentor and assistant editor at We Are Not Numbers, which shares with the world authentic and compelling stories from the next generation of Palestinian writers and leaders.
