Breathings of My Heart About the Author Gopika Menon is a fifteen-year-old writer from Mumbai. She was born on 3rd January, 2003 and has been writing poetry and tales from the age of twelve. She says that books are her inspiration. Breathings of My Heart is her first collection of poetry and tales. Literature is what she loves and her experiences pushed the pen to spill reality onto paper. "Literature is magical; feel it and it could show you a new world."