Minal Hajratwala

Minal Hajratwala is author of the award-winning epic Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (2009), which was called incomparable by Alice Walker and searingly honest by the Washington Post , and editor of Out! Stories from the New Queer India (2013). She is a co-founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. She graduated from Stanford University, was a fellow at Columbia University, and was a 2011 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar. As a writing coach, she...See more

Minal Hajratwala is author of the award-winning epic Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (2009), which was called incomparable by Alice Walker and searingly honest by the Washington Post , and editor of Out! Stories from the New Queer India (2013). She is a co-founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. She graduated from Stanford University, was a fellow at Columbia University, and was a 2011 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar. As a writing coach, she loves helping people give voice to untold stories. See less