Southern California friends, I’d love to see you at this event. If the chance to hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson doesn’t convince you, maybe this cool poster from Maritess Santiago at the UCI Humanities Collective will:
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If you’re looking for a resume, you can find out more about my work on LinkedIn. I also keep an updated list of book reviews, if that’s what you’ve come here for. Jump down the page for a map of my work and complete list of publications. At the end, you can find a list of my appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist.
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My students from my year-long fellowship teaching writing and literature in Singapore often asked me: “Where are you from?”
It’s not an easy question to answer. My parents were born and raised in Maharashtra, India, where all of my mom’s side of the family still lives. I was born in Newfoundland, Canada, and moved to Southern California as a kid. I went to UC Berkeley and then moved back to Los Angeles and edited a magazine about Asia. I spent one year in Singapore, teaching, writing, traveling and learning Chinese (tones are difficult!). Now I’m back in California (sometimes), writing and learning about things nearby and far away.
