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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED OUR SECOND ANNUAL DESI LIT FEST.
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2025 DESI LIT FEST SPONSORS:
Art is spiritual technology—ancestral tools for remembering, resisting, and reimagining who we are.
On Earth Day 2025, Oregon DesiFest invites you to Desi Lit Fest: Movement and Memory, an evening of storytelling and classical Indian dance that explores identity, heritage, and connection to the land.
“Legacies of land and family reach across generations and continents in Jaclyn Moyer’s compelling more-than-memoir On Gold Hill. You will never bite into a piece of bread, or visit your local farmer’s market, in quite the same way again."
—Meera Subramanian, author of A River Runs Again
Photo Credit: Robert Scherle
Sitara is a senior at South Eugene High School and has been learning and performing Bharatnatyam since the age of 5 under her mother's teaching. She is currently under the formal guidance of Guru Radhika Muralidharan since 2022 and is planning to complete her Arangetram in the next few years. Sitara's interests are painting, astronomy, music, and reading.
Jaclyn Moyer grew up in northern California’s Sierra Foothills. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The Atlantic, High Country News, Salon, Guernica, Orion, Ninth Letter and other publications. She's received fellowships and support from Fishtrap, Wildbranch Writing Workshop, The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Community of Writers, and Spring Creek Project, and was a finalist for the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize. She has worked as a vegetable farmer, bread baker, teacher, and native seed collector. Jaclyn currently lives with her partner and two young children in Corvallis, Oregon.
Jaclyn Moyer grew up in northern California’s Sierra Foothills. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The Atlantic, High Country News, Salon, Guernica, Orion, Ninth Letter and other publications. She's received fellowships and support from Fishtrap, Wildbranch Writing Workshop, The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Community of Writers, and Spring Creek Project, and was a finalist for the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize. She has worked as a vegetable farmer, bread baker, teacher, and native seed collector. Jaclyn currently lives with her partner and two young children in Corvallis, Oregon.
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