Meena Alexander

Meena Alexander was born in India. Her new book of poems Illiterate Heart (Triquarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press) is winner of a 2002 PEN Open Book Award. She was commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall, London to compose a cycle of poems for Poetry International 2002. Her memoir Fault Lines (Feminist Press) will appear in Fall 2003 with a Coda entitlted “Book of Childhood.” Alexander is Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, City University of New York.