Pooja Makhijani is the editor of "Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America" (Seal Press), an anthology of essays by women that explores the complex ways in which race shapes American lives and families. She is also the author of Mama's Saris (Little Brown Books for Young Readers), a picture book.
Her bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, The Washington Post, WSJ.com, The Rumpus, Lucky Peach, BuzzFeed, Quartz, and Design*Sponge among others. Her essays and short fiction have been published in a number of children's literary magazines, including Cicada, Kahani, and New Moon.
Find her online at poojamakhijani.com and twitter.com/notabilia.
