Jaishree Misra

Jaishree Misra Indian author Jaishree Misra has an MA in English Literature from Kerala University and two post-graduate diplomas from the University of London, the first in Special Education and the second in Broadcast Journalism. She was awarded a scholarship by the Charles Wallace for India Trust in order to complete her course in Special Education. Misra worked for several years in the Child Care Department of Social Services in Buckinghamshire and, more recently, as a film classifier at the British Board of Film Classification in London, England. She resigned at the end of 2009 after a seven-year stint when she went to live in New Delhi, India, where she helped to start up a residential project for adults with learning disabilities. The studio she built on Veli beach in Trivandrum, Kerala is being developed into a writers' residency. She currently lives with her family in the UK.