Madhur Anand in Conversation

Join us Sept. 30th at 7pm for an author talk to celebrate Madhur Anand's latest book, To Place a Rabbit. Madhur will be in conversation with author, Sangamithra Iyer. About the authors: MADHUR ANAND's debut book of creative non-fiction This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and named one of 10 all-time "trailblazing" poetry collections by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her second collection of poems Parasitic Oscillations (2022) was also a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and named a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. To Place a Rabbit is her first novel. Anand is a professor and the director of the Global Ecological Change and Sustainability Laboratory at the University of Guelph, Ontario. Sangamithra Iyer is the winner of the Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction for her first book, GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE , A WATERSHED (Milkweed Editions), a lyrical reckoning of the ways bodies (human, animal, and water) are controlled and liberated. She is an engineer, environmental planner, and writer who holds a B.E. in Civil Engineering from The Cooper Union, an M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. She was also awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship at the New York Public Library. She is the founder of The Literary Animal Project and lives in Queens, NY.