[1] Her novel How to Find What You're Not Looking For won the 2022 Jane Addams Children's Book Award.
Hiranandani, the daughter of a Jewish mother and a father who was originally from India, was raised in Connecticut.
She attended George Washington University, and later studied fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
It would become a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a South Asian Book Award Finalist[2] Hiranandani's next novel, The Night Diary, is set against the background of the 1947 Partition of India.
She stated that this book was partly inspired by the experiences of her father, who was nine at the time of the Partition, and fled his home with his family.