Meena Alexander has called herself a “woman cracked by multiple migrations.” Born in India, raised in Sudan, educated in England, and currently a resident of New York City, she has drawn on experiences of trauma, exile, conflicting identity, and the customs of four continents to produce eight books of poetry, a memoir, ...

Alexander explores themes of memory, migration, Diaspora and displacement in her diasporic work.

A Century Later written by Imtiaz Dharker, is concerned with the female struggle historically and across the globe to access an education. It explores how knowledge is power, and it compares the battleground of the school to the more traditional battleground of armed warfare and the conflict between opposing soldiers.