about

Aarti Monteiro is a fiction writer and educator. She holds a BA in English Literature from Grinnell College and an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers University-Newark. She has received support from VONA/Voices, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Tin House Writers' Workshop. She oversees the programs department at the youth writing nonprofit 826NYC. Aarti is working on a novel in stories that deals with home, loss, and identity. Her work has been featured in Cosmonauts Avenue, Epiphany Magazine, and wildness. Aarti tweets at @aaisforaarti.

Photo by: Aslan Chalom

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fiction

• The Rainy Season, Cosmonauts Avenue

• Sterling Place, Epiphany Magazine

• This Is Not the End, wildness

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readings & events

• 826NYC Reading Series, Pete's Candy Store, February 11, 2019

• RAICES Fundraiser, Starr Bar, September 23, 2018

• Renegade Reading Series, Cafe con Libros, May 18, 2018, 7:00pm

• 826NYC Reading Series, Pete's Candy Store, May 14, 2018, 6:30pm

• Bloom Reading Series, Hudson View Gardens, February 18, 2018

• Eclipsed Reading Series, Naive Bar, November 16, 2017

• Girls Write Now Memoir Workshop, October 28, 2017

• Rutgers-Newark MFA Reading Series, KGB Bar, March 4, 2017

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