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VIRTUAL CAXTON: Neela Vaswani

May 20 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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NEELA VASWANI is the author of the short story collection, Where the Long Grass Bends; the mixed-genre memoir, You Have Given Me a Country; the middle-grade novel, Same Sun Here (co-written with Silas House), and the picture book, This is My Eye (author and illustrator). She is the recipient of the American Book Award, a PEN/O.Henry Prize, the ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal, the Italo Calvino Prize for Emerging Writers, and other literary honors. Also an audiobook narrator, she received a Grammy for her narration of I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World, and multiple Audies for other works of fiction and nonfiction.

Vaswani has a Ph.D. in American Cultural Studies. She lives in New York City with her family and teaches in classrooms from elementary to graduate school. She is an education activist in the U.S. and India and serves on the Board of Kweli Journal.

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