Ranjani Murali has an MFA in Poetry from George Mason University and currently teaches writing courses at Harper College in Illinois. Her first book of poems, Blind Screens, was published by Almost Island in 2017. The book won the Prabha Khaitan Women’s Voice Award in 2019. Murali was the recipient of the 2014 Srinivas Rayaprol prize as well as fellowships for poetry and nonfiction from the Vermont Studio Center and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, respectively. Clearly You are ESL is her second book of poems.

BOOKS BY RANJANI MURALI