User:Flitlondon/Priya Desai

Priya Desai is an independent speech and language therapist who works with young children in schools. Priya grew up in London and attended both school and university there. She graduated from UCL in 2004, with a Bsc in Speech Sciences and then began her career as a Speech and Language Therapist, gaining experiences both in the NHS and private therapy sector. Priya has been working enthusiastically as an independent therapist for almost four years now.

Priya’s career as a children’s author was accidental and unintended. She was inspired to write a story about handwriting, by a young boy who she worked with that had difficulties with handwriting. After careful consideration, Priya was more attracted to the appeal of putting a book together and fulfilling the idea of writing and producing a book, as opposed to being an author. It was while she was putting her first book, Benjamin Writer-Messy together, that she noticed the potential of the type of books she could offer to the children’s book marker – entertaining stories with an educational component that children can relate to and learn from. Hence, Jake Monkey-Tail soon followed.

Priya has many more stories to tell and looks forward to continuing to learn about writing and how to produce wonderful children’s books.