About

Dharani Persaud is a queer Indo-Guyanese-American writer, organizer, and archival enthusiast from Minnesota. She has publications in Prism International, Under the Gum Tree, Hobart, Kajal Magazine, and Brown Girl Magazine. She performed at Tender Table in 2019 and has facilitated several writing workshops with a focus on queerness and ancestry.

Dharani holds an MLIS and MAS (Master of Archival Studies) from University of British Columbia and graduated from Wellesley College in 2017 with a BA in International Relations and a minor in Italian. She was formerly the Youth & Community Programs Manager at GrubStreet in Boston, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Library, Archival, and Information Studies at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.