Meera Vijayann

Meera Vijayann is a writer and essayist based in Kirkland, Washington. Her writing is shaped by the decade she spent as a development professional and journalist reporting on sexual violence in India and has appeared in Catapult, Entropy, Electric Literature, and The Guardian, among others. She earned an MA in Communications Studies from the University of Leeds and emigrated to the United States in 2015. Her honors include fellowships from the Poynter Institute and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Her essay about how immigration laws separated her from her family won the Medium Writer’s Challenge Finalist Prize in 2021. In 2022, she was awarded the Hugo House Fellowship in Fiction to finish her debut novel. 

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