Archana Maniar

Literary

Born near Chicago to Indian immigrants, Archana relocated with her parents to Mumbai at age four. After the culture shock abated, she fell in love with her homeland until chance brought the family to California. She studied political theory and biology at UCLA before attending medical school at the University of California, Davis. As a professor of medicine and infectious disease doctor, she was on the frontlines from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Always a writer in the margins of her day, storytelling became an obsession during her medical career, an outlet for her stubborn creative instincts.