Friend and magnificent writer Damyanti Biswas, author of You Beneath Your Skin, sent me an anthology of Malaysian food+drink essays. One of the pieces in Telltale Food: Writings from the Fay Khoo Award, 2017-2019 is Damyanti’s, so I was thrilled to the core to receive…
I’m so excited! I’ve been reading Damyanti Biswas with amazed admiration for years, and today she’s a guest on my blog!! !!! !!1!1!! Take it away, Damyanti! ~*~ Food. Glorious food. When Marian asked me to write about the role of food in my debut…
I first “met” Damyanti Biswas through the A-to-Z blogging challenge. She had elected to write a short story every day (yes, this was before Story A Day May). Unlike my May stories, Damyanti’s daily stories were gems: the kind of “literary” that makes people say,…
