ena ganguly

ena ganguly (she/they) is a soft-spirited Bengali femme – a storyteller, healer, and lifelong student. Born in Bihar and raised in Texas, ena never saw herself in popular media, including literature. They began to write in order to witness a life, their life, that would otherwise be erased in the wave of time. Their work focuses on collective memory, grief, healing, state violence, surveillance, and sensuality and has been featured in BBC, Buzzfeed, KUT Austin Radio, The Austin Chronicle, COURIER Newsroom, exhibited in Austin, TX at Prizer Arts and Letters, and allgo. Recently, she won Breakwater Review’s 2024 Peseroff Poetry Prize.

ena has facilitated countless writing workshops for survivors, queer people of color, students, and healing practitioners as well as edited anthologies for marginalized writers. For more about ena and her work, please visit her website at: enaganguly.com or follow her at IG @enaganguly.