Where Are You From? Stories of Belonging and Unbelonging

Nimisha Ladva is a writer and storyteller. Her stories have been broadcast on NPR’s Newsworks and CommonSpace programs. She recorded her first story for television for PBS’s Stories From The Stage in February, 2019. She has won multiple story slams with both The Moth and First Person Arts and has also been a Grand Slam winner with both. “Uninvited Girl,” her solo performance play, premiered in Philadelphia in 2016 at the First Person Arts Festival and in New York in June 2018 at the Women in Theater Festival. She has received grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Leeway Foundation and has been nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in literary and news publications in the U.S and U.K. In July 2018, her story, “An American Family,” was anthologized in The RISK! Book: True Stories People Never Thought They’d Dare to Share. She teaches at Haverford College and is the Oral Communication and Public Speaking specialist there.

 

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