Swati Sengupta is an author. Her books include Incredible Life series of short biographies of extraordinary Indians (2022 and 2023, Speaking Tiger Books) The books are on Birsa Munda, Savitribai Phule, Milkha Singh and Jhalkari Bai.

Swati’s other books include Out of War (Speaking Tiger Books 2016), Guns on My Red Earth (Rupa, 2013), Half the Field Is Mine (Scholastic, 2014), The Talking Bird (Tulika Books, 2014) and A Tea Garden Party (Pratham Books, 2021).

She translated Murder In The City by Supratim Sarkar (Speaking Tiger Books, 2018) from Bengali to English.

Swati runs a workshop series on gender for the young titled The Elephant In The Room.

She is a former journalist

She studied English at Jadavpur University and lives in Kolkata.