Milkweed & SEWA-AIFW present Sangamithra Iyer

Join Milkweed for an author and artist talk with visiting writer Sangamithra Iyer, joined by local writers Nigar Alam & Sruthi Narayanan.
About this Event

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sangamithra Iyer is the winner of the Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction for her first book, GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE , A WATERSHED (Milkweed Editions), a lyrical reckoning of the ways bodies (human, animal, and water) are controlled and liberated. She is an engineer, environmental planner, and writer who holds a B.E. in Civil Engineering from The Cooper Union, an M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. She was also awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship at the New York Public Library. She is the founder of The Literary Animal Project and lives in Queens, NY.

Nigar Alam's debut novel, Under the Tamarind Tree, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Nigar was born in Pakistan and spent her childhood in Turkey, Nigeria, Italy, Kenya, Indonesia and the United States. She has worked in both brand management and auditing, and currently teaches and lives in Minnesota with her family.

Sruthi Narayanan is an Associate Lecturer of English at the University of Minnesota. Her work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Copper Nickel, Nimrod International Journal, and The Offing. Sruthi is a Kundiman fellow and has received support from the Anderson Center at Tower View, the AWP Intro Journals Project, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and elsewhere.

ABOUT SEWA-AIFW

SEWA-AIFW originated from a desire to meet the unrecognized and unmet needs of communities in the Twin Cities and Refugee community in Minnesota. SEWA means, “to serve” in Hindi, and was created to serve and promote “Total Family Wellness” For individuals in Minnesota through specific programs. SEWA began as a small group of volunteers and since its creation in 2004 has become registered as an official Minnesota Non-Profit Corporation, 501c3 established a Board of Trustees, gained a dedicated and growing group of trained volunteers and has established programs designed to meet the needs of our communities in Minnesota. SEWA-AIFW is continuously involved in research, trainings and collaborations with other organizations to improve its programs and better serve the community in Minnesota.