Anjali Enjeti is a journalist, activist, poll worker, and former attorney based near Atlanta. She is the author of Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, and The Parted Earth, a novel. Her third book, Ballot, tells the story of voting and voting rights from her perspective as a Georgia voter who volunteered for the campaigns of Jon Ossoff, Stacey Abrams, Reverend Raphael Warnock, and others. Her writing has appeared in the Truthout, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Harper’s Bazaar, Oxford American, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Antioch University in Los Angeles and Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia.

Anjali is the recipient of the 2022 Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel, a gold medal for Best Regional Nonfiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and is a finalist for the 2023 Townsend Prize for Fiction. She has also received awards from the South Asian Journalists Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, multiple Pushcart Prize nominations, two notable mentions in The Best American Essays series, and residencies and fellowships from Sundress Academy of the Arts, the Hambidge Center, and Wildacres. A former board member of the National Book Critics Circle, she was named to Good Morning America’s 2021 Asian American and Pacific Islander Inspiration List and has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition, Peacock’s Zerlina, Amerie’s Book Club, and In the Thick podcast. She is a graduate of Duke University, Washington University School of Law, and the MFA program in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte.