Roshni Rustomji-Kerns has lived, studied and worked in India, Pakistan, Lebanon, the United States of America and Mexico. She is the coeditor of Blood Into Ink: South Asian And Middle Eastern Women Write War and the editor of Living In America: Poetry And Fiction By South Asian American Writers and Encounters: People Of Asian Descent In The Americas . Her short stories have appeared in journals and anthologies in the United States of America, Canada and Pakistan. Her novel The Braided Tongue was published in 2003.