September 8, 2008

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Chaya Parmessur

Chaya Parmessur was born in Mauritius from an Indian family settled in Mauritius from the Indian State of Bihar. She received a scholarship from the Mauritian Government and studied Chemical Engineering at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University and lived in the United Kingdom for 14 years. In 1997, tired of the English weather, she went to work in Perth, Western Australia, where she is now a permanent resident. She is currently working in Houston, USA as a Senior Process Engineer in the Oil & Gas Industry. She has traveled extensively, visiting more than 35 countries and has a fascination for all the different cultures and peoples of the world. The Snake Spirit, Part 1, is her first novel and she is already working on Part 2. Chaya has been a writer all her life, but over the last few years, helped by a supportive Creative Writing Group, she suddenly found her own original voice. The image of her great-grandmother, who had died when the author was eleven, became vivid and many of the stories recounted by the old lady started surfacing from some remote corner of the subconscious.