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Veena Rao is an award-winning journalist and author. Her debut novel Purple Lotus is a 2021 Georgia Author of the Year finalist, a 2021 American Fiction Award winner, and an award-winning finalist in the multicultural and women’s fiction categories of the 2021 International Book Awards.

She is the founding editor of NRI Pulse, an Atlanta-based news publication.

When she is not writing or meeting press deadlines, you will find her meditating or photographing the flora and fauna on her wooded walk route.

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