Margaret Mascarenhas

MARGARET MASCARENHAS is a consulting editor, columnist and novelist, the author of the diasporic novel, Skin (Penguin India) and The Disappearance of Irene dos Santos (Grand Central USA)set in modern Venezuela.

An American citizen of Goan origin who grew up in Venezuela, she currently lives in Goa and is the Director of the Goa Centre for the Arts. She is working on her third novel, Just Another Car Bomb (working title) set in Beirut, as well as on collections of her columns, short stories, and poetry. She teaches creative writing to inmates at the Central Jail in Goa.

Her agent is Ellen Levine (Trident Media Group, 41 Madison Avenue, 36th Floor NY, NY 10010)