IDENTITY & THE LIVED EXPERIENCE
IN STORYTELLING CULTURE
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Raghav Rao
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Raghav Rao is the author of MISSY (Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press).
He teaches Creative Writing at The University of Chicago and writes a newsletter on information saturation.
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Website: fatimahasghar.com
Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer, Fatimah Asghar is a South-Asian American Muslim writer who cares less about genre and instead prioritizes the story that needs to be told and finds the best vehicle to tell it. They are the author of "Daughter of the Mountains," "If They Come For Us," "When We Were Sisters," and the chapbook "After."
Fatimah Asghar
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Nishanth Injam is the author of the story collection The Best Possible Experience, which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice pick and longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner and The Story Prize. Raised in Telangana, India, he now lives in Illinois.
Nishanth Injam
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Dr. Colleen Taylor Sen is a Canadian-American culinary historian who writes about the food of the Indian Subcontinent and related topics. She is the author or coeditor of eight books and is currently writing a history of Indian food in America.
Colleen Sen
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