How They Speak of the Fields
Born in San Jose to a South Indian mother and Irish-American father, Shamala Gallagher holds a BA from Stanford University, an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-Austin; and a PhD from the University of Georgia. She is the author of Late Morning When the World Burns (The Cultural Society, 2019), and the co-translator of Evening with a Sufi by Afsar Mohammad (Red River, 2022). A Kundiman Fellow, Gallagher teaches humanities and English. She lives in Athens, Georgia.