Exploring Women's Voices with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Soul Bone Lit Fest & MIU's MFA in Creative Writing

This Reading, Master Class, and Q&A with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is part of MIU's MFA in Creative Writing Residency.

This afternoon, another headliner of our residency, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, will join us again to read from her work, talk about craft, and answer your questions. The theme of her reading this time is Women&#x27;s Voices. This talk will also expand to underrepresented narratives of characters of non-binary gender.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning and bestselling author, poet, activist and teacher of writing. Her work has been published in over 50 magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing included in over 50 anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, O.Henry Prize Stories and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her books have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Bengali, Russian and Japanese; many have been used for campus-wide and city-wide reads. Several of her works have been made into films and plays. She lives in Houston with her husband Murthy and has two sons, Anand and Abhay.

Born in Kolkata, India, she came to the United States for her graduate studies, receiving a Master’s degree in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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