Virtual Session: In Conversation with Author Sara Chansarkar

Sara Siddiquie Chansarkar:

Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American writer. Born to a middle-class family in India, she later

migrated to the USA with her husband and son. A technologist by profession and a writer by passion,

her short fiction has been published widely in journals and anthologies including Best Small Fictions

2022. She won first place in the ELJ Micro Creative Non-Fiction Prize, placed second in the Larry Brown

Short Story Award, and is the runner-up for the Chestnut Review Chapbook Contest. She is currently a

Fiction Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Her first book is a short story collection titled Morsels of Purple,

and her second is a novella titled Skin Over Milk.

Moderator: Meera Narasimhan

Meera Narasimhan has been performing in theater/films for four decades in India and in the USA. She

has acted in many community theater productions, in professional plays and in the DC cap-fringe festival

in the DC-metro area for over thirty years. She has also acted in numerous feature films, short films,

commercials, industrials, and in shows on NBC, HBO, FOX, TV pilots, and in a music video. Meera hosted

a monthly TV show “Potluck” on FPA/DC-NoVA. Hobbies include collecting degrees (JD, 2xMAs, BS) and

careers (medical, educational, journalistic, legal, and acting)

Host: Neerja Tripathi

Host or Publisher DC South Asian Literary Festival