Chitra Divakaruni
Associate Professor

Chitra Divakaruni,who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, brings diversity to the faculty through her ability to teach fiction, poetry, and nonfiction workshops as well as multicultural literature courses. She has published four books of poetry, three novels, two collections of stories, two young adult novels; edited two anthologies; and had work appear in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and O'Henery PizeStone. Her writing has won the American Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes, two PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards, the C.Y. Lee Creative Writing Award, and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, and she has been chosen for the Woman of Achievement Award, the Woman of Vision Award, and two National Excellence in Teaching Awards.

Dark Like the River (Writers Workshop, India)
The Reason for Nasturtiums (Berkeley Poets Press)
Black Candle (Calyx Books)
Arranged Marriage (Anchor/Doubleday)
The Mistress of Spices (Anchor/Doubleday)
Leaving Yuba City: Poems (Anchor/Doubleday)
Sister of My Heart (Doubleday)
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives (Doubleday)
The Vine of Desire (Doubleday)
Neela (Pleasant Company)
The Conch Bearer (Roaring Brook Press)