AANHPI Heritage Month: Storytime with Meera Sriram

Next date: Thursday, May 07, 2026 | 04:00 PM

Celebrate AANNHPI Heritage Month with a special Storytime by Meera Sriram! Storytime will be followed by a book sale and craft.

About the author:

Meera Sriram draws from her life straddling the East and West to tell stories. She grew up in India and moved to the United States at the turn of the millenium. An electrical engineer in the past, she now writes for children and advocates for diversifying bookshelves. Meera felt compelled to tell her stories when she noticed children of color like her own, as well as immigrant and cross-cultural experiences, were missing in the books her family was reading.

Meera is the author of several picture books including the multi-award winner, A GIFT FOR AMMA, DUMPLING DAY, featured in The New York Times, A GARDEN IN MY HANDS, that garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, and THE SPICE BOX, a CALIBA Golden Poppy Award finalist. She’s a two-time recepient of the South Asia Book Award. Her work has been selected as Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) and Bank Street College, and as American Library Association’s Rise: A Feminist Book Project. Her books have been included in several state reading lists and translated into many different languages.

Meera was trained in leading storytimes for early learning by the Alameda County Library in California. She went on to be involved in several early literacy initiatives for over a decade around cities in the Bay Area. These days, she volunteers her time in helping amplify new voices in her role as the Equity & Inclusion Awards Coordinator for the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) San Francisco North & East Bay region. She was also a 2024 We Need Diverse Books Picture Book Mentor. 

Passionate about early and multicultural literacy, Meera believes stories have the power to take us into newer spaces and into unseen lives; she hopes they leave us more empathetic and inspired to celebrate our diverse world. Meera loves chai and yoga, woodsy hikes and urban murals, and lives with her family in Berkeley, California. 

 

When

Location

2nd Floor Youth Library

Library | Parks & Recreation Center, 901 Civic Campus Way, South San Francisco, 94080, View Map