I am a writer, consultant, and anthropologist. I went through my schooling in India and came to the United States on a full scholarship to Wellesley College. I worked for several years as an economist, and then 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), I have taught at the University of California, San Diego and Princeton University, and directed the Leadership Institute at the University of San Diego.  I did my doctoral fieldwork in Le Puy en Velay in the Massif Central, in the heart of France. After I started writing long fiction, I attended the fiction workshop at Under the Volcano in Tepoztlán, Mexico in 2017. In 2019, I was awarded an artist/writer residency at Djerassi in northern California. In the summer of 2021, I was an artist/writer in residence at I-Park in Connecticut.

My first novel Night Heron was just presented by Archive Books at their stall at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair April 2024 and will soon be available online and through bookstores.  I am currently seeking to heave my second novel, Pretty Lights, into a publishing pipeline and revising my novella, Mute. Meanwhile ideas gather for my fourth work, again a novel.

​I am an exuberantly informed and opinionated lover of contemporary art and culture, much enjoy roller-skating in Riverbank State Park, dream about scuba diving in warm water, and dance awkwardly. I have two grown daughters, and live in West Harlem in New York City.