Sangamithra Iyer is an environmental planner, engineer, and writer. She is the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Café Royal Foundation Literature Grant and the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship at the New York Public Library. She is the founder of the Literary Animal Project, for which she was awarded a Culture and Animals Foundation Grant. She lives in Queens, New York, with her husband, Wan, and rescued pit bull, Asta.
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Books by Sangamithra Iyer
An Orion Magazine Reading Recommendation
A South Asia Institute, Harvard University Reading Recommendation
A beautifully rendered debut memoir of family, legacy, conservation, the natural world—and those who inhabit it.
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