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Neela Vaswani is an American writer of Indian extraction. She was born on 11 September 1974 in Port Jefferson, New York. She narrated the audio version of I am Malala and won a Grammy for this in 2015. [1] [2] She lives in New York City.
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).
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Neela Vaswani is the award-winning author of You Have Given Me a Country and Where the Long Grass Bends. Her work has received an American Book Award, an O. Henry Prize, and a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award.
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Neela Vaswani is on faculty at Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA in Writing Program. She founded and curated the Adult Literacy and ESL Storylines Project at the New York Public Library. Neela has been Visiting-Writer-in-Residence or Guest Lecturer at over 100 institutions, including:
Neela Vaswani's "real and imagined" memoir is a tour-de-force of one woman's struggle with (and celebration of) her mixed identity. Vaswani takes us inside her struggle and celebration with lyrical and highly descriptive writing.
Jan 1, 2004 · Through a romp of language—vital, outrageous, unpredictable—the fireworks of Neela Vaswani’s original genius cast shadows and illumine psyches that conventional monovisions never perceive. The stories of Where the Long Grass Bends are for readers willing to view the shape-shifting of both reality and literary form.
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