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Neema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia to parents who immigrated to the United States from India. Her essay collection, Another Appalachia, attempts to reconcile her nostalgia for the place she grew up with the troubling realities of unemployment and addiction that confront the state today, while exploring how the lessons she learned in childhood continue to shape her identity in the present.

Avashia has been a history and Civics teacher in the Boston Public Schools since 2003, and often writes opinion pieces and commentary regarding her experiences as an educator. Her essays have appeared in The Bitter Southerner, Catapult, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere.

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ONE MONTH FROM TODAY is the pub date of the very excellent Another Appalachia by my former GrubStreet student Neema Avashia and to celebrate Neema’s launch I will be in conversation *~*~*in person*~*~* with her on the new GrubStreet stage at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition at 50 Liberty Drive in the Seaport! For more information, check out the Porter Square Books website or the GrubStreet website and be sure to RSVP. See you all there!!!

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