Meena Alexander is an award winning author and scholar. Her new book of poetry Birthplace with Buried Stones (TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press) was published in Fall 2013. Her volumes of poetry include Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Award), Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River. Her poetry has been translated into several languages and set to music.

 

She has written the acclaimed autobiography, Fault Lines as well as two novels. She is author of the academic study of Women in Romanticism and the book of essays, Poetics of Dislocation. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and  teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.