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I’m the author of A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity, and Into the Mess and Other Jesus Stories: Reflections on the Life of Christ. I’m also a columnist and contributing editor for The Christian Century.  From 2014 to 2022, I worked as a staff writer for Journey with Jesus: A Weekly Webzine for the Global Church, and from 2014 to 2024, I served as a lay minister for formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, CA. I studied English Literature at Wellesley College and Brown University, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at The Ohio State University. Currently, I am a seminarian at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, CA. 

 

My husband, Alex, our two "all grown up" children, and our labradoodle, Ruby, love living in sunny California. I was born in Kerala, South India, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Like many children of immigrants, I grew up juggling a complicated and often confusing mix of identities: South Asian, New England suburban, evangelical, and feminist. In the murky "in-betweenness" of those identities, I learned that life is far more varied and messy than it is neat or certain, and that faith is not about finding once-and-for-all answers, but about delving deeper and deeper into mystery. 

 

I was a preacher’s kid and a church nerd, but also the annoying little brat who asked all the “wrong” questions about God, faith, doubt, life, and the Bible. I started writing as soon as I learned to read and spell. I was lucky to have a mom who introduced me early to the treasures of language and literature, and writing soon became my way of processing my world. Whenever I felt awed, bewildered, frightened, or joyful, I turned to pen and paper for refuge and grounding, and found that the "Word made flesh" is closer and more loving than I can ever imagine. I suppose not much has changed! 

 

I’m not quite as conflicted as I used to be, but I remain a seeker, an explorer, a believer, and a doubter. I write about faith because faith is both hard and life-giving, both beautiful and bizarre. I write because I don’t know, and because God somehow meets me in that unknowing.  I find solace in wrestling and seeking blessing on the page, and I hope that my journey gives others permission to wrestle, too.