About Me

Lini S. Kadaba is a national award-winning journalist. Her human-interest stories have appeared in, among other publications, The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she was a staff writer for nearly twenty-five years, The Saturday Evening Post, Boston Magazine, The Pennsylvania Gazette, and GROW. She has been featured in the college textbooks America Now and Mirror on America: Short Essays and Images from Popular Culture. The Society of Professional Journalists and the National Federation of Press Women have honored her work.

Leftovers After Life is her first novel. It was recognized in the Novel Character Contest by the Philadelphia Writers' Conference.

When not writing, she’s gardening, enjoying the Jersey Shore, and traveling overseas. She lives with her husband outside Philadelphia and has a son.