is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and filmmaker. Her debut novel, My Blue Skin Lover, won the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Gold award for multicultural fiction. She is an alum of Hedgebrook, Breadloaf, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Many of her stories and essays have been published in literary journals including The Los Angeles Review of Books, Santa Monica Review and Juked. Born in Benares, India, she lives in Los Angeles where she teaches writing and literature at Santa Monica College.
