Author Pages | Meena Alexander
Biography
Meena Alexander is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including the recently updated and expanded memoir Fault Lines (named one of the best books of 1993 by Publishers Weekly), the novel Nampally Road (a VLS Editor’s
Choice in 1991), the novel Sandhya
Rosenblum, and Poetics of Dislocation. Her six volumes of poetry include Illiterate Heart, which won the PEN Open Book Award; Raw Silk; and Quickly Changing River. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The New York
Times Magazine, Daedalus, Poetry Review (UK), and Grand Street,
and has been translated into Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic, French, Italian, and German.
Alexander is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center
and Hunter College, City University of New York, and Lecturer in Poetry in the
Writing Program at Columbia University. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, Rockefeller, NEH, Arts Council of England, and other fellowships, and the Modern Language Society's 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2009 a critical volume devoted to her work, Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander (edited by Lopamudra Basu and Cynthia Leenerts, Cambridge Scholars Publishing), was published.
South End Press titles by Meena Alexander
The Shock of Arrival
Reflections on Postcolonial Experience |
The Shock of Arrival
Reflections on Postcolonial Experience |