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Namrata Poddar writes fiction, nonfiction, and serves as interviews editor for Kweli, where she curates a series titled “Race, Power and Storytelling.” Her work has appeared in Longreads, Literary Hub, Transition, Poets & Writers, The Best Asian Short Stories 2019, Electric Literature, CounterPunch, and elsewhere. Her debut fiction manuscript, Ladies Special, Homebound, was a finalist for Feminist Press’s 2018 Meriwether First Book Prize and is forthcoming from Speaking Tiger. She holds a PhD in French literature from the University of Pennsylvania, an MFA in fiction from Bennington Writing Seminars, and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transnational Cultures from UCLA.