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This is the website of Maya Chhabra, author of Firebird Caged. I’ve previously written Chiara in the Dark, Stranger on the Home Front, and more. I also translate and write short stories and poems.

Contact me through the contact form below with any questions, or follow me on Bluesky. I am represented by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency.

Check out news in the Updates section.

Click on the covers below to read more about my novels and translations.

Cover of the novel Firebird Caged by Maya Chhabra, showing a teenage girl with her head in her hand, holding up a pregnancy test, and sparks of fire in the background.
Cover of novel Chiara in the Dark by Maya Chhabra, showing scratched or cracked ice in a spotlight
Cover of book I Am America: Stranger on the Home Front: A Story of Indian Immigrants and World War I, by Maya Chhabra. A mixed race girl stands in front of a chalkboard under an American flag, holding a newspaper with the headline "War."

Cover of the book Today Is A Different War by Lyudmyla Khersonska, art showing an allegorical mother figure in blue and yellow representing Ukraine and protecting people held in her hand from the rockets above.




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