Gaiutra Bahadur
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Gaiutra Bahadur

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Gaiutra Bahadur is an essayist, critic and journalist born in Guyana and raised in New Jersey. She is the author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, a personal history of indenture shortlisted in 2014 for the Orwell Prize, the British literary prize for artful political writing. A former daily newspaper staff writer and Nieman Fellow, she teaches writing and journalism as an associate professor at Rutgers University in Newark. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Nation, and The Boston Review, among other publications, and in several collections of creative writing. The recipient of literary residencies from the MacDowell and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy, she is a two-time winner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Award for prose.
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