Sujatha Fernandes

Sujatha Fernandes is a writer, scholar, and teacher. She is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, where she founded the Racial Justice and the Curriculum Project. Her short stories have appeared in New Ohio Review, Saranac Review, Aster(ix), and The Maine Review. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, The Nation, and forthcoming in Orion Magazine. She is the author of a memoir on a global hip hop life Close to the Edge (Verso), a collection of essays The Cuban Hustle (Duke University Press), and Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford). She is an editorial board member of the literary magazine Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora and edited a special issue with Jared Thomas on Bla(c)kness in Australia. She is currently completing a collection of interlinked short stories Shadow People, and a novel Beyond the Monsoon Mountains.