Uttama Patel

Uttama is an author, editor and psychology postgraduate from the University of Cambridge who specialises in narrative revision. Through guided journaling and mindful writing, she helps people reshape their inner scripts for a deeper sense of well-being. Uttama is the author of the novel, Shape of an Apostrophe, whose work has been featured in The Tribune, Vogue, BBC, LitHub, and Times of India, among others. She holds an MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge, has been a semi-finalist in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, and was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Uttama is the founder of South Asian Parent magazine and an adoptive mother. Her workshops use craft, psychological insight and reflective practice to hone the narratives we write, and the ones we live by.

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