11 Questions With Creatives

Balli Kaur Jaswal is the award winning author of Inheritance, Sugarbread, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, and The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters. Jaswal’s short fiction and non-fiction writing have appeared in the UK Sunday Express, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar, Conde Nast Traveller and Best Australian Short Stories, among other publications and periodicals. She has travelled widely to appear in international writers festivals to conduct workshops and lectures on creative writing, pursuing an artistic career, the power of storytelling, global citizenship and social justice advocacy through literature. A former writing fellow at the University of East Anglia, Jaswal has taught creative writing at Yale-NUS College and Nanyang Technological University where she is currently pursuing a PhD. Get to know her with 11 questions! You can also watch a video version of this conversation on YouTube. Follow @11QuestionsPod on Instagram & Twitter for more. instagram.com/11questionspod | twitter.com/11questionspod

Anu Chouhan is a Punjabi-Canadian illustrator from Vancouver. Growing up, she always knew she wanted to pursue an artistic career and spent a lot of time learning about animation, while drawing inspiration from video games, fashion, anime, bollywood movies, and nature. Upon completion of her Bachelor of Arts degree, Anu received a Commercial Animation diploma and worked as a mobile game artist for several years. During that time, she began sharing her artwork online under the name @anumation. Her unique, edgy, and empowering art which often depicts girls and women of South Asian descent has garnered attention on social media from major publications, brands, and celebrities from around the world. She is currently working as a freelance illustrator from her home studio. Get to know her with 11 questions! You can also watch a video version of this conversation on YouTube. Follow @11QuestionsPod on Instagram & Twitter for more. instagram.com/11questionspod | twitter.com/11questionspod

Ishpreet Kaur Bhogal is a writer and author of poetry book, Recovery. She experienced many challenges as a young adult, when her mother was diagnosed with cancer and turned to writing as a form of release. Ishpreet takes us on her road to recovery, where we read about her growth, acceptance and personal development through poetry and prose. Get to know her with 11 questions! You can also watch a video version of this conversation on YouTube. Follow @11QuestionsPod on Instagram & Twitter for more. instagram.com/11questionspod | twitter.com/11questionspod

Anuradha D. Rajurkar is a teacher by day and a YA writer by night, who holds two degrees from Northwestern University. She lives in Milwaukee with her husband and two sons. American Betiya is her first novel. Get to know her with 11 questions! You can also watch a video version of this conversation on YouTube. Follow @11QuestionsPod on Instagram & Twitter for more. instagram.com/11questionspod | twitter.com/11questionspod

Born in Tanzania and raised in Botswana, Gayatri Sethi is of South Asian Punjabi descent, multilingual, and polycultural. She reflects on these lifelong experiences of identity, immigration, and belonging in her debut book titled #Unbelonging. When she is not homeschooling or recommending readings as @DesiBookAunty, she travels the globe with her students and family. Get to know her with 11 questions!

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Candice started off her career at Cosmopolitan as an intern and eventually worked her way over to Elite Daily where she still works as their Senior Sex + Dating Writer. Outside of Elite Daily, she also writes for Cosmopolitan, Tinder Swipe Life, The Cut, and more. As far as topics go, she pretty much covers everything you and your friends have discussed over brunch, from if it’s really OK to skip your birth control to why Kourtney and Scott are the greatest exes of all time. She has also written a book: Just Send The Text, and she loves exploring all things sex, dating, and wellness and loves to create work that empowers women to be their most authentic selves when it comes to their love lives. Get to know her with 11 questions!

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Disha Mazepa is the host of 'But What Will People Say?,' a South Asian interracial relationship podcast and the creator of Disha Mazepa Designs, a custom design service. Get to know her with 11 questions!⠀

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Sairish Hussain was born and brought up in Bradford, West Yorshire. She studied English Language and Literature at the University of Huddersfield and progressed onto an MA in Creative Writing where she began working on her first novel. Get to know her with 11 questions!⠀

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SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author and educator, and the author of the award-winning novel: Marriage of a Thousand Lies. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and lives in Canada with her partner, the poet Geoff Bouvier. Get to know her with 11 questions!

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Meredith Fineman Meredith Fineman is an entrepreneur, writer, and media expert with over a decade of experience training individuals to use public relations as a catalyst for positive career change. Fineman is the founder and CEO of FinePoint, a leadership and professional development company with a focus on visibility and voice. She speaks and trains a number of topics, and is best known for her speaking and training on women and bragging. Fineman is also the author of  Brag Better: Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion, and is the creator and host of the second-hand and sustainable fashion podcast, It Never Gets Old, and the secondhand and sustainable fashion newsletter, Secondhand Society™. Her dog, Bean, is her copilot. Get to know her with 11 questions!

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