Anjali Enjeti is an Atlanta-based former attorney and the author of two books,
Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, and a novel,
The Parted Earth. She is the recipient of the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel, a finalist for the 2022 Townsend Prize for fiction, and a gold medal for Best Regional Nonfiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Her articles have appeared in the
Los Angeles Times,
Boston Globe,
Harper’s Bazaar, and elsewhere. A former board member of the National Book Critics Circle, she served as a nonfiction juror for the 2023 Kirkus Prize, and teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Antioch University Los Angeles and Reinhardt University.
