Margaret Mascarenhas

MARGARET MASCARENHAS is a novelist, independent curator, consulting editor, and op ed columnist. She is the author of the diasporic novel, Skin, published by Penguin India (2001). She is also the author of the novel,The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos (Grand Central, Hachette 2010) and of the spoken work poetry/flash and sketch collection Triage--casualties of love and sex  (Harper Collins 2013). An American citizen of Goan origin who grew up in Venezuela, she currently lives in Goa and is the founding Director the Blue Shores Prison Art Project.