Excerpt from Between Light and Earth

by Anjali Mitter Duva

This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.

Anjali Mitter Duva

Anjali Mitter Duva is an Indian American writer, editor, and publisher who was raised in France. She is a co-founder of Galiot Press and a former fiction editor at Solstice Literary Magazine. She is the author of
FAINT PROMISE OF RAIN  which won a William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and she has been a finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. She co-founded and ran the Arlington Author Salon for ten years, and is also a co-founder of the Indian kathak dance non-profit 
Chhandika. Anjali was educated at Brown University and MIT.

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