Anjali Enjeti is an award-winning essayist, journalist, and author of debut novel The Parted Earth. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Al Jazeera, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and other venues. She teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Reinhardt University and lives near Atlanta.
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A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings as a mixed-race brown gir... SEE MORE