Ashwini Gangal is a journalist, fiction writer and poet based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past three years she has written extensively for local 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, etc. During this time she also authored four fiction and poetry chapbooks and completed four creative writing courses at Stanford University, as part of the Continuing Studies program.
Before moving to California, Ashwini worked as abusiness 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
a South Asian anglophone and writer photographed working at her desk, on a good day.