Swati Khurana is a New York City-based writer and artist. Publications include The New York Times, Guernica, Asian American Literary Review, and The Weeklings. Khurana’s writing and art have received support from Center for Fiction, Jerome Foundation, Center for Book Arts, Kundiman, Bronx Arts Council and others. Find her at swatikhurana.com
The day the manuscript became Driving without a License was the day I said “yes” to the truth of my own life and coming-of-age experience as an undocumented immigrant.
Swati Khurana talks with novelist and translator Idra Novey about the challenges and joys of translation, the idiosyncrasies of language, the inextricable reception of women's writing and women's bodies, and much more.