2008 Speakers
Beena Kamlani
Beena Kamlani, senior development editor at Viking Penguin, has worked in book publishing for over two decades, editing many well-known writers, including Saul Bellow. Kamlani's own fiction has appeared in Identity Lessons and Growing Up Ethnic in America (Penguin). Kamlani has received fellowships from Yaddo and Ledig House, and won a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at Sewanee and a fiction grant from the Connecticut Arts Commission. She has also taught editing classes for twelve years at New York University, where she received an award for excellence in teaching. Kamlani lives in New York and is working on completing her first novel.
Speaker Links
Read a short story by Kamlani at the Virgina Quarterly Review.
Read Kamlani's short story, "Goat."