Meenakshi Chakraverti is a writer, consultant, and anthropologist. She did her schooling in India and came to Wellesley College on a full scholarship. She worked for several years as an economist, and then, after her doctorate, moved on to become a reputed practitioner in the fields of conflict resolution and leadership development. With degrees from Princeton University (MPA, economics) and Cornell University (PhD, social anthropology), she has taught at the University of California, San Diego and Princeton University, and directed the Leadership Institute at the University of San Diego. She did her doctoral fieldwork in Le Puy en Velay in the Massif Central, in the heart of France. After she started writing long fiction, she attended the fiction workshop at Under the Volcano in Tepoztlán, Mexico in 2017. In 2019, she was awarded an artist/writer residency at Djerassi in northern California. In the summer of 2021, she was an artist/writer in residence at I-Park in Connecticut.
Her first novel Night Heron is published by Archive Books. She is currently seeking to heave her second novel, Pretty Lights, into a publishing pipeline and working on a dance project based on her novella, Mute. Meanwhile ideas gather for her fourth work.
Meenakshi has two grown daughters, and lives in Inwood in New York City.
Her first novel Night Heron is published by Archive Books. She is currently seeking to heave her second novel, Pretty Lights, into a publishing pipeline and working on a dance project based on her novella, Mute. Meanwhile ideas gather for her fourth work.
Meenakshi has two grown daughters, and lives in Inwood in New York City.