C.K. Chau is a Chinese-American writer based out of New York.
She holds a master's degree in English Literature from Hunter College. Her work has previously appeared in sunstruck magazine and Bright Wall/Dark Room, among others, under another name.
When she isn't writing, she can be found watching old films and daydreaming about her next meal.
Roopa was brought up in London and graduated from New College in Oxford in 1995. She worked in advertising and it 2004 quit to write full time. She now lives in south east London and south west France with her husband and two sons. Bitter Sweets is her first novel and in 2007 it was nominated for the Orange Award for New Writer.
Her second novel, Corner Shop was released in October 2008 and her third novel is due in 2009.
