Anshu has a bachelor’s degree in biology from MIT and has done her graduate work in epidemiology at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health. After some years in medical and health services research, she and her husband moved to North Carolina to start a business. She writes historical fiction, short stories and creative nonfiction. She has not yet found a cure for her book buying addiction and will soon be buried alive by the stacks of books accumulating on her bedside table.