Sanjena Sathian

Sanjena performed on our virtual stage for Seriously Entertaining on April 20, 2021, speaking on the evening’s theme, “Only Home We’ve Ever Known.” Watch it below.

A Paul and Daisy Soros fellow, Sanjena Sathian is a 2019 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has worked as a reporter in Mumbai and San Francisco, with nonfiction bylines for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more. Her award-winning short fiction has been published in Boulevard, Joyland, Salt Hill, and The Master’s Review.

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