Shamini Flint lives in Singapore with her husband and two children. She began her career in law in Malaysia and also worked at an international law firm in Singapore. She travelled extensively around Asia for her work, before resigning to be a stay-at-home mum, writer, part-time lecturer and environmental activist. She writes children’s books with cultural and environmental themes including Jungle Blues and Turtle Takes a Trip as well as the Sasha series of children’s books. Her books for young readers include, Ten, set in a small, seaside town in Malaysia, which is a touching, multi-cultural story of the universality of human values, and The Seeds of Time, about two ordinary children on a quest to save the planet.