Anjali Banerjee is the #1 Kindle, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestselling author of nine novels for youngsters and adults under her real name and six novels of psychological suspense under the pen name, A. J. Banner.

Her novels have been translated into several foreign languages and have received accolades in Booklist, Publishers Weekly, The Seattle Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, SF Gate, The Smithsonian, School Library Journal, VOYA, and more.

The feature-length film, Anu, based on Anjali’s middle grade novel, Looking for Bapu, premiered at the 2023 Seattle International Film Festival, made a splash at the 2023 Chicago South Asian Film Festival, and is now available on Amazon Prime Video and other online platforms.

Chicago Book Review called her new A. J. Banner novel, DREAMING OF WATER, “a beautifully written piece of fiction.” Publishers Weekly called IN ANOTHER LIGHT “gripping…The twisty plot builds to a satisfying resolution. Banner knows how to keep the reader guessing.” Bestselling author Lisa Gardner called the book “a riveting psychological thriller." 

Born in India and raised in Canada and California, Anjali received degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She is an alumnus of Hedgebrook, an esteemed retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island, and has been a speaker at the South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival (SALTAF®) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and at many schools, libraries and writers’ conferences.

Anjali loves swimming, hiking, reading, photographing wildlife, and playing piano. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, in a cottage in the woods, with her husband and four rescued cats.