Kandala (she/her) is a writer, qualitative researcher and teaching artist from New Delhi, India, currently living in Pittsburgh.

Kandala holds a joint Masters degree in Human Rights Practice from the Universities of Gothenburg, Roehampton and Tromsoe. She has worked on gender and development issues in India for over a decade.

She is the recipient of a Dietrich Fellowship from the University of Pittsburgh, and a 2023 Katherine Bakeless Contributor Award in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.