With more experience, she wrote and published Inheritance in 2013. Jaswal began writing her first novel, Sugarbread, while she was in college but has said that she did not know enough yet about writing novels, so it was not the first to see publication. She is married to Paul Howell they have a son born in 2018.
She gave up teaching in 2016 when the sale of her novel Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows allowed her to take up writing full-time. During the early part of her career, Jaswal taught high-school English in Australia for several years, and taught at an international school in Istanbul. Wong Fellowship for writing at University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, which supports English-language writing about Asia. She studied English at Hollins University in the United States and graduated in 2004. She lived in Singapore from the ages of eight to 15, and also lived in Japan, Russia, the Philippines growing up. Jaswal was born in Singapore her family moved internationally during her childhood, following her father's career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2019, the Business Times described Jaswal as "the most internationally well-known Singapore novelist after Crazy Rich Asians’ Kevin Kwan." Personal life Movie rights for Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows have been sold to Scott Free Productions and Film4. Her third novel, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was released in 2017, and garnered her a wider international following, driven in part by being picked as a selection for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine online book club. Her second novel Sugarbread was a finalist for the 2015 inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Her first novel Inheritance won the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelist Award in 2014, and was adapted for a film presented at the 2017 Singapore International Festival of the Arts. Balli Kaur Jaswal is a Singaporean novelist, having family roots in Punjab.
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