Anjali Enjeti

Anjali Enjeti is a former attorney, organizer, and journalist based near Atlanta. She is the author of Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, and the debut novel, The Parted Earth. Her writing about politics, social justice, and books has appeared in The Oxford American, USA Today, Harper’s BAZAAR, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Publisher’s Weekly, and elsewhere.

Since 2017, she has been working to get out the vote in Georgia’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community. She co-founded the Georgia chapter of They See Blue, an organization for South Asian Democrats in 2019, and served on the Georgia AAPI Leadership Council for the Biden Harris campaign in 2020. A former board member of the National Book Critics Circle, she is the recipient of awards from the South Asian Journalists Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, as well as residencies from the Hambidge Center, Sundress Academy of the Arts, and Wildacres.

A graduate of Duke University, Washington University School of Law, and the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, she teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Reinhardt University.