Sejal Shah

Award-Winning Author of "This is One Way to Dance"

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Sejal Shah Biography

Sejal Shah is the author of the award-winning debut memoir in essays, "This Is One Way to Dance" (University of Georgia Press, 2020). Her essay collection reflects on culture, family, language, and place. Her stories and essays have appeared widely in print and online — including Brevity, Guernica, Conjunctions, the Kenyon Review Online, and Longreads. She has presented her work on invisible disability and neurodiversity as an invited keynote speaker at conferences at Princeton University (2019) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2020).

She is the recipient of a 2018 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Fiction and residencies or fellowships from Blue Mountain Center, the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, Kundiman, and The Millay Colony. She received her BA in English from Wellesley College and her MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Shah recently completed a story collection and is at work on a memoir about mental health and academia. She teaches creative writing in community-based workshops and privately. The daughter of Gujarati parents who immigrated to the United States from India and Kenya, Shah lives in her hometown of Rochester, New York.

Sejal Shah Videos

  • Personal Space: Sejal Shah
    On this episode of Personal Space: The Memoir Show, Sari Botton interviews Sejal Shah, author of the memoir-in-essays This is One Way to Dance,...

Sejal Shah Books

  • This Is One Way to Dance: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.)
    This Is One Way to Dance: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.)

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