Background
She was born in California, but raised in India and Hawaii.
She was born in California, but raised in India and Hawaii.
She attended Reed College, and received her Master"s from Royal Holloway at University of London.
She has written two books, Careful What You Wish Foreign and The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon. About Hermes" first novel, Publishers Weekly praised "her grasp of domestic joy and sadness, and her evocation of life in a small Southern town, add texture to this uplifting weeper." Her second novel, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet is a prequel to Hamlet, set in Hamlet"s imagined college years.