Ashwini Gangal is a journalist, fiction writer and poet based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has written for news organizations like Embarcadero Media (publisher of newspapers like the Palo Alto Weekly, Almanac, Mountain View Voice and Redwood City Pulse), India Currents, KQED, Nob Hill Gazette, Business Insider, etc.
She has authored four fiction and poetry chapbooks and has completed four creative writing courses at Stanford University, as part of the Continuing Studies program.
Her essays won an award at the 2025 Journalism Awards organized by the San Francisco Press Club.
Before moving to California, Ashwini worked as a business journalist in Mumbai; she was managing editor at afaqs.com, a publication that covers the Indian advertising industry.
Like every journalist worth her salt, she too walks around with several award-winning bestsellers in her head and hopes she can get around to writing them in this lifetime.
She has a master's degree in clinical psychology which she uses mostly to nurse her own neuroses.
Contact: gangal.ashwini@gmail.com