Sangamithra Iyer is an engineer and writer who received an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College, where she studied memoir with Louise DeSalvo. Sangu was a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize in New Environmental Writing and an Emerging Writing Fellow at Aspen Summer Words. Her writing has been published by The Kenyon Review, Satya Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, n+1, Hippocampus Magazine, and Newtown Literary where it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.