Nimai Agarwal is a young author and scholar who  has been homeschooled along with taking classes at the Stanford University Online High School and the Friends Meeting  School of Ijamsville, Maryland. He has been writing and editing his novel, Lotus Saga, since 2010 when he was 12 years old. Since 2011 he has been working with an online international teen magazine, Kidspirit Online. Nimai has published several articles with Kidspirit and The Huffington Post. He also heads the Maryland/DC editorial board for Kidspirit.

 

Nimai has attended both the Iowa Young  Writers’ Studio and the Kenyon Review Young Writer ’s Workshop. His writings have received several awards including prestigious Scholastic Writing  and Arts awards and first place in the Maryland Letters About Literature Award in 2010 for his letter, Who Am I?. His essay A Fresh Look was published in Kidspirit and re- published on The Huffington Post where it received 400 comments.

 

In 2015, at the Parliament of World Religions  held in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nimai was one of only seven kids who spoke although there were hundreds of panels. Nimai brought his openness to the spiritual paths of others as well as his own commitment to the Vaishnava branch of Hinduism. He currently lives in Maryland with his parents, where he studies, paints, and writes.