Minal Hajratwala

Minal Hajratwala

Minal Hajratwala is a writer, performer, poet, and queer activist of South Asian descent. She was born in and is currently based in San Francisco, California, US, and was raised in New Zealand and suburban Michigan. She is a graduate of Stanford University.

Career

She is the author of Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), which Alice Walker has called "incomparable,"[1] and The Washington Post has characterized as "searingly honest."[2] She researched and wrote the book during a seven year period, traveling the world to interview more than 75 members of her extended family.

Hajratwala's creative work has appeared in journals, anthologies, and theater spaces and has received recognition and support from the Sundance Institute, the Jon Sims Center for the Arts, the SerpentSource Foundation, and the Hedgebrook writing retreat for women, where she serves on the Alumnae Leadership Council. For World AIDS Day in 1999, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco commissioned her one-woman show, “Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium.”

She previously worked as a journalist at the San Jose Mercury News for eight years, was a board member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, and was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2000-01.

In June 2011 Hajratwala and Tom MacMaster, creator of Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari, engaged in an online dispute over the posting of MacMaster's manuscript.[3]

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