An Interview with Meena Alexander

Ruth Maxey is currently completing a doctorate in South Asian diaspora writing at University College, London. She has recently published “ ‘The East is Where Things Begin’: Writing the Ancestral Homeland in Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston,” Orbis Literarum 60.1 (Feb. 2005): 1-15.

Meena Alexander has two new books forthcoming in 2018. Her volume of poems Atmospheric Embroidery (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern U Press) and the anthology she edited Name Me a Word: Indian Writers Reflect in Writing (Yale U Press). She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY. www.meenaalexander.com