Sangamithra Iyer is a writer, engineer, and environmental planner. Her first book, Governing Bodies, a lyrical reckoning of the ways bodies—human, animal, and water—are controlled and liberated, will be published by Milkweed Editions. She was an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writer Fellow, an editor of Satya Magazine, a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize in New Environmental Literature, and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize.
