Nandita Dinesh holds a PhD in drama from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, an MA in performance studies from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and a BA in economics & theater from Wellesley College. An alumna of the United World College movement, Nandita has conducted community-based theatre projects in Kashmir, India, the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. In 2017, she was awarded the Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy by Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Nandita’s first novel, This Place That Place, is forthcoming (Melville House, 2022), and she is currently working on projects across literary genres.