Neela Vaswani is an American writer of Indian heritage. She was born in 1974 in Port Jefferson, New York, and received degrees from Skidmore College, Vermont College, and the University of Maryland.[1] She narrated the audio version of I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, and won a Grammy for this in 2015.[2][3] She is married to actor Holter Graham and lives in New York City. She is the founder of the Storylines Project, which she did with the New York Public Library.[4]