Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning and bestselling author, poet, activist, and teacher of writing. Her work has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker , and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories , the O. Henry Prize Stories , and the Pushcart Prize Anthology . Her books have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Bengali, Russian, and Japanese; many have...See more

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning and bestselling author, poet, activist, and teacher of writing. Her work has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker , and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories , the O. Henry Prize Stories , and the Pushcart Prize Anthology . Her books have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Bengali, Russian, and Japanese; many have been used for campus-wide and city-wide reads. Several have been made into films and plays. She lives in Houston, where she teaches Creative Writing at the University of Houston. See less