| Jill Holslin |
 Jill Holslin is a lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University where she has taught courses on the politics of street art & popular culture, Islam and modernity, and the U.S.-Mexico border wall. A photographer and blogger, Holslin has spent the past three years documenting the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in San Diego County, and has used her work to lobby political leaders both in San Diego and in Washington D.C. with the coalition No Border Wall.
Holslin publishes articles about culture in the San Diego-Tijuana region regularly on her blog, http://www.attheedges.com/ |
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| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her themes include women, immigration, the South Asian experience, history, myth, magic, and celebrating diversity. She writes both for adults and children. Her latest work, One Amazing Thing, was published in 2010.
Divakaruni is also the author of Arranged Marriage, which won an American Book Award. Her other works, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, have been made into films. In addition, Divakaruni is an acclaimed poet whose collection, Leaving Yuba City, won a Pushcart Prize, an Allen Ginsberg Prize and a Gerbode Foundation award. Her writing has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and been included in over 50 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 20 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Russian, and Japanese. The author was born in India and lived there until 1976, when she left Calcutta and came to the United States. She earned a master’s degree in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/
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