Namrata Poddar
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Namrata Poddar

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Namrata Poddar writes fiction and nonfiction, serves as Interviews Editor for Kweli where she curates the series on Race, Power and Storytelling, and teaches literature as well as creative writing at UCLA. Her work has appeared in several publications including Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Longreads, The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Catapult, Transition, The Millions, The Margins, The Caravan, and The Best Asian Short Stories. Her debut novel, BORDER LESS, is releasing from 7.13 Books in North America in March 2022, and later this year from HarperCollins in South Asia. She was a recent contributor to The Los Angeles Times where she focused on the art and sociocultural diversity of Orange County. She holds a PhD in French literature from the University of Pennsylvania, an MFA in Fiction from Bennington College, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transnational Cultures from UCLA. She is a first-generation Indian American who was raised in Mumbai and has lived in different parts of the world before making Greater Los Angeles her home. You can learn more about her by visiting namratapoddar.com; or following her on Twitter, @poddar_namrata, and on Instagram, @writerpoddar.
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