I write under my name Gita V. Reddy and under the pennames Jessica Spencer (Sweet Regency Romances) and Heera Datta (Historical Fiction).

I was always a storyteller. Even as a child, I loved weaving stories but did not attempt to write them. My earliest writing was for the school house magazine and various competitions. It was mostly essays or a creative writing piece on a given topic.

I wrote my first story when I was thirty-four. An English professor gave me some valuable tips to improve it. Since then it has been a long learning curve. Fifteen years after that first story, I was a published author. Today I have over thirty-five titles out. I have written novels, short chapter books, short stories, and picture books. I have also illustrated four picture books for kids. 

In an earlier life that I voluntarily quit, I was a senior manager at State Bank of Hyderabad, where I worked for twenty-six years. I took early retirement in 2011 to become a full-time writer.

I was born in Gorakhpur and grew up in Hyderabad, where I live to this day with my husband and son. I am married to a physics professor and am a postgraduate in Mathematics.

I have always loved reading. I also enjoy music and art, and visiting places of natural beauty.