Vasanti Unka is a New Zealand writer, illustrator and graphic designer who has been involved in the book and magazine industry for many years.
[7][8] In 2015, 2016 and 2017, she was part of the New Zealand Book Council Writers in Communities project, working with students of Ōtāhuhu Primary School in south Auckland.
[9] In a 2018 article, she describes her work as "an exploration in visual language" and writes about her cultural heritage, her design influences, and on the need for diversity in children's book publishing to reflect New Zealand's multicultural society.
[10] She designed the cover[11] and created some of the portraits for Go Girl: a Storybook of Epic NZ (Puffin, 2018) by Barbara Else.
[12] Vasanti Unka was compiler of the book With A Suitcase Of Saris: From India To Aotearoa: Stories Of Pioneer Indian Women, which relates the stories - told by their daughters and granddaughters - of some of the first Indian women to immigrate to New Zealand.