Archaeology of the Present
My sisters and I lived among the skin-lamps of earth. The They walked by on rattlesnakes, alligators, eels, cows, trade-beads of ivory and ebony — all words for the bones of the living ... Read More
Minal Hajratwala
Minal Hajratwala is the author of the award-winning narrative nonfiction book Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). Her creative work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and theater spaces, and has received recognition and support from Pen USA, Lambda Literary, California Book Awards, Sundance Institute, SerpentSource Foundation, and the Hedgebrook writing retreat for women, where she currently serves on the Alumnae Leadership Council. Her solo show, "Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium," was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco for World AIDS Day in 1999. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and will spend the 2010-2011 academic year in India researching a novel.