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Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

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Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar is a South Asian American writer, with a PhD in English, who also moonlights as a standup comic.  In her routines and writing, audiences experience what it means to be brown and female in a supposedly post racial era. Mohana creates humorous feminist and cultural content like in her solo show Being Brown is My Superpower, in which she channels a lifetime of cultural misunderstandings. An award-winning novelist, she writes compelling characters in diverse settings. Named a SheWrites New Novelist, with several Best Indie book titles, in the Crimes in Arabia series, she explores the seams of life in the Arabian Gulf though the eyes of a female Arab detective and her grumpy cop sidekick turned husband. You can read more about her work and recent adventures adapting her short stories into films at www.mohadoha.com.