Milkweed presents Sangamithra Iyer

Join Milkweed for an author and artist talk with visiting writer Sangamithra Iyer, joined by local writers Nigar Alam & Sruthi Narayanan.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sangamithra Iyer is the winner of the Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction for her first book, GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE , A WATERSHED (Milkweed Editions), a lyrical reckoning of the ways bodies (human, animal, and water) are controlled and liberated. She is an engineer, environmental planner, and writer who holds a B.E. in Civil Engineering from The Cooper Union, an M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. She was also awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship at the New York Public Library. She is the founder of The Literary Animal Project and lives in Queens, NY.

Nigar Alam’s debut novel, Under the Tamarind Tree, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Nigar was born in Pakistan and spent her childhood in Turkey, Nigeria, Italy, Kenya, Indonesia and the United States. She has worked in both brand management and auditing, and currently teaches and lives in Minnesota with her family.

Sruthi Narayanan is a fiction writer and essayist with an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BA from Wellesley College. She was the first-prize fiction winner of the 2020 Francine Ringold Award, hosted by Nimrod International Journal, and her work has additionally appeared in Mississippi Review and Copper Nickel. Sruthi is a Kundiman fellow and has received support from the Anderson Center, the AWP Intro Journals Project, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and elsewhere. She currently teaches in the English department at the University of Minnesota.