P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans

JANANI SREENIVASAN writes for the New Yorker and Toast. Previously, she was the Managing Editor of Cabinet Magazine in New York.

Janani's parents emigrated from South India to the United States in 1976 and are naturalized citizens. Born in 1983, Janani grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, where her parents and her first writing mentor, Alice Ann Eberman, still live.

Janani graduated from Princeton University in 2004 with a degree in history. She studied writing with Suzanne Paola, Susan Lohafer, Patricia Foster, and three Johns: Seabrook, D'Agata, and McPhee. In 2007 she received her MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa.

Janani's author crushes are Patricia Highsmith, Hans Christian Andersen, and Henry James.