Neelima is an Engineer and an MBA graduate from Kerala, India. She spent most of her growing up years in India studying to be those things and reading everything. She now lives in Munich with her husband and a 3-year-old daughter. She writes every Friday morning with the Heeley Women Writers based in Sheffield. She speaks Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, English and German. She spends the lockdown writing, baking, gardening, reading when her daughter plays in the sand.