Anjali Enjeti is a former attorney, organizer, and award-winning journalist based near Atlanta. She is the author of Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, which received a gold medal for Best Regional Nonfiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and The Parted Earth, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year and a finalist for the Townsend Prize. Her other writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Harper’s Bazaar, Oxford American, and elsewhere. A former board member of the National Book Critics Circle, she served as a nonfiction juror for the 2023 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize and teaches in the MFA program at Reinhardt University.
Anjali co-founded the Georgia chapter of They See Blue, an organization for South Asian Democrats, and served on the Georgia AAPI Leadership Council for the Biden-Harris campaign.
- MFA in Creative Writing, Queens University in Charlotte
- JD in law, Washington University School of Law
- BS in Psychology, Duke University
- Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change
- The Parted Earth, a novel
- “The Haunting of Lake Lanier” Oxford American
- “How to be a writer and an organizer” Poets & Writers
- “On January 6th We Triumphed and Imploded. What Comes Next?” Harper’s Bazaar
- “Dynastic Privilege, A Terrible Novel, and the Race for a Crucial Senate Seat,” Literary Hub
- Books All Georgians Should Read in 2022 (The Parted Earth)
- Good Morning America’s 2021 Asian American and Pacific Islander Inspiration List
- Atlanta Magazine’s Best Storyteller of 2021
- The Parted Earth selected for Amerie’s Book Club, August 2021
- Fourth Estate Residency Fellowship, Sundress Academy of the Arts
- Fellow, Hambidge Center
- First place nonfiction prize, Prime Number Magazine
- Outstanding Story on Any Subject (twice), South Asian Journalists Association
- Best essay, American Society of Journalists and Authors
- Two notable mentions, Best American Essays
- Wildacres residency
- Member, Georgia’s 2020 AAPI Leadership Council for the Biden Harris campaign
- Co-founder and former co-leader of the Georgia chapter of They See Blue
- Cabinet, Emerge Georgia Advisory Board, Alliance Theater in Atlanta
- Asian American Journalists Association
- South Asian Journalists Association
- Asian American & Pacific Islander Leadership Council for Stacey Abrams and the Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign
- Asian American & Pacific Islander Outreach Committee for the Jon Ossoff campaign