The English Problem

Beena Kamlani is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review; Ploughshares; Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American, eds. Gillan (1999); Growing Up Ethnic in America, eds. Gillan (2000); The Lifted Brow (2008); World Literature Today and other publications. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts and Hedgebrook. A former senior editor for the Penguin Group, she taught book editing at New York University for nearly two decades and was presented an award for teaching excellence. The English Problem is her first novel.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212806722-the-english-problem

This event is co-sponsored with Ekta Community Center, a secular nonprofit organization based in Ridgefield with a mission to nurture and promote public interest in Indian and Indo American culture and affairs. Its goal is to serve as a hub for community building, enrichment, volunteering and support services.

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