Nisha Srinivasa is..

a Bay Area educator, author, and resident of several years. From a young age, Nisha has had a deep love of literature, stories, and storytelling. Within the world of literature, Nisha grew a unique fondness for poetry, and decided to start writing original poems in the 5th grade. When she was 11, her original (and unfortunately, extremely sad) poem entitled "Despair" was submitted to the Young Poet's anthology by her 6th grade teacher, and her submission was accepted. This experience let her unearth her love of writing as a means of telling stories. From then on, Nisha has authored research papers and honors theses, special education frameworks at the California Department of Education, and countless education related reports--but in the mean time, her creative writing, for the most part, stayed hidden within the confines of her journals. That is, until 2019, when nishawritesstories, her instagram writing blog, was born. 

She then started sharing her poetry and short stories on her blog, with various literary magazines, and online sites such as Substack and Medium. In 2021, Nisha was published by Brown Girl Magazine for her short form piece entitled "Curls, Curves, and Confidence". With each post, Nisha gained more confidence and motivation to keep writing.  Her experience with sharing her work publicly made her realize that if she put herself out there, she could make her dream of being an author come true. She started submitting her first fully complete poetry manuscript in late 2022. 

Fast forward to August 2024, the manuscript Nisha was submitting to different publishers got green-lit by She Writes Press, a local Bay Area publisher. That manuscript has since turned into Nisha's debut novella, The Synesthete's Rainbow, being officially released on April 28th, 2026.