Indira Ganesan is the author of three novels, The Journey, Inheritance, and As Sweet as Honey. She worked on the first two at MacDowell, at the Bark Studio (now known as The Schelling Studio) and at Veltin. She was born in 1960 in Srirangam, India, and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and Rockland County, New York. She held fellowships from the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, The McDowell Colony, The Paden Institute for Writers of Color, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the W. K. Rose Fellowship of Vassar College. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Antaeus, Black Renaissance, and Half and Half: Writers on Biracialism & Biculturalism. She teaches at Emerson College, is working on a new novel, and reviews books for Phi Beta Kappa’s thekeyreporter.org. She hosts a global music program on Cape Cod community radio, WOMR/WFMR, and her website is indiraganesan.com.
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