Namrata Poddar

Namrata Poddar writes fiction, nonfiction, and serves as Interviews Editor for Kweli where she curates a series on Race, Power and Storytelling. Her work has appeared in The Margins, Transition, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, LARB Quarterly, Literary Orphans, The Feminist Wire, The Caravan, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, an MFA in Fiction from Bennington Writing Seminars, and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transnational Cultures from UCLA. More at www.namratapoddar.com.