Deepti Kapoor is an Indian author and journalist born into a socially conservative family in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. She is currently settled in Portugal. Her father was a banker posted in Bahrain during the Gulf War. She grew up and stayed in various places across India and abroad, like Mumbai, Delhi, Goa, Dehradun, Bahrain, Lisbon, and Portugal. She studied at Welham Girls’ School, Dehradun. Later, she pursued journalism at the Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, in 1997 and did her master’s in social psychology. During her twenties, she worked as a journalist in Delhi for various publications. Then, she moved to Mysore to practice Yoga and later to Goa. According to her, her writing originated from her Ashtanga yoga practice.