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calcutta-born Chitra Divakaruni lives in
Sunnyvale, Calif., with her husband, Murthy, and two sons, Anand and Abhay. She
teaches at Foothill College and is the president of MAITRI, a help line for
South Asian women. Chitra's poetry has won a number of awards, including a Pushcart Prize and an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, and her first book of fiction, the short story collection "Arranged Marriage," received an
American Book Award, a PEN Oakland Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award. Her first novel, "The Mistress of Spices," was published earlier this year.
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