Neela Vaswani

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Neela Vaswani


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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. She teaches at Spalding University's MFA in writing program and is the founder of the Storylines Project with the New York Public Library. Neela Vaswani lives in New York City. ...more

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We Are Displaced: My Journe...

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The Flame: Poems and Notebooks

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Same Sun Here

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“I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them.”
Neela Vaswani, Same Sun Here

“That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.”
Neela Vaswani, Same Sun Here

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