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Nalini Jones

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Richard Locke

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Idra Novey

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Patty O'Toole

Cecily Parks

David Plante

Mark Rozzo

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Sadia Shepard

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Nalini Jones

Lecturer

Nalini Jones was born in Rhode Island, graduated from Amherst College, and received an M.F.A. from Columbia University.  Her story collection, What You Call Winter, was published in August 2007 by Knopf, and her work has appeared in Elle India, Creative Nonfiction, Ontario Review, and a 2008 essay anthology, AIDS Sutra, published by Random House India and Vintage Books.  She is a Stanford Calderwood Fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and teaches at Columbia University and the 92nd Street Y in New York.  She has also worked for several years in music, helping produce festivals and concert series in New York, Newport, and New Orleans.