Meher is a journalist, writer, podcaster, and editor from India, currently based in California.

Her areas of interest are human rights, social justice, oral histories, literature, heritage and culture.

Her work has appeared in Radio Pacifica, Himal Southasian, The Wire, The Hindu Business Line, as well as in community media outlets Maktoob Media and Two Circles, among others.

Her fiction has appeared in Storm Cellar and Newfound, and is forthcoming in Thirteen Bridges Review.

Meher studied Politics at Ithaca College, Education and Development at the University of East Anglia and Journalism at the Asian College of Journalism.

Books that still blow her away: “Moses and Gaspar” by Amparo Dávila, and “Dead Souls,” always, by Nikolai Gogol.

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