Lucky Boy (Sekaran) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1977-78
• Where—State of California, USA
• Education—B.A., University of California-Berkeley; M.F.A, Johns Hopkins University;
   Ph.D, University of Newcastle-Upon Tyne (UK)
• Currently—lives in Berkeley, California


Shanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.

Sekaran's work has appeared in the New York Times, Best New American Voices and Canteen, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel, The Prayer Room was published in 2008 and reissued in 2016. Lucky Boy, her second novel, came out in 2017.

A California native, Sekaran lives in Berkeley with her husband and two children. (Adapted from the publisher.)