Born in Calcutta in 1956, Gita Wolf was educated in different cities in India, including New Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore. She received her master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany. In 1987, after living and working in Germany for 10 years, she moved back with her family to Chennai, India. In 1994, she started Tara Books, an independent publishing house. Interested in both the word and the visual, Gita has always been keen to explore their relationship in creative and unorthodox ways. While she started out with the idea of creating picture books for children, set in the Indian context, the publishing house has gone on to do more: create illustrated books for children and adults, push the boundaries of the book form, publish titles in art pedagogy, and explore the relationship between the lived life and art and craft making.