Mary Anne Mohanraj

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mary Anne Mohanraj
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 26, 1971(1971-07-26)
Age	53
Birthplace	Colombo
Country	United States
Horoscope	Cancer

Mary Anne Mohanraj Biography

Mary Anne Mohanraj is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 26, 1971 in Colombo, United States. Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj (born on the 26th of July 1971) is an American writer, editor and academic born in Sri Lankan birth.

Mohanraj reside in Oak Park, Illinois, which is a Chicago suburb. She lives along with her husband Kevin Whyte (a mathematician) and their two children, daughters Kaviarasi Whyte (born May 18 2007) along with the son Anandan Whyte (born September 24 September 24, 2009).

It’s called Black July in Sri Lanka. Riots erupted in Colombo, the capital city, killing thousands of Tamils, the ethnic minority group, the group to which I belong. Brutal chaos ensued – friends of mine who were there tell horrifying stories. They saw tires put around men’s necks, saw them lit on fire. They saw women and children dragged from their homes, pulled from cars to be raped and killed in the street.

On February 12, 2015, she announced in her blog that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She has been documenting the treatment (including chemotherapy and a lumpectomy) in a “Cancer Log” on her website. On February 24, 2015, she married Whyte, with whom she had had a domestic partnership for 23 years.

Mohanraj is a teacher in the classrooms of Salt Lake Community College, the University of Utah, and Vermont College. From September 2005 through June 2007 she was a visiting Lecturer at the MFA Program at Roosevelt University. From 2007 until 2008 she was an adjunct professor in the Writing Arts Department at Northwestern University, in the Center for the Writing Arts. The Clarion Workshop was her teaching venue. Clarion Workshop in July 2008. Since 2008, she has been working in within the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) initially as a Clinical Assistant Professor and then as a Clinical Associate Professor. She was the Associate Coordinator for Asian as well as Asian American Studies at UIC from 2009 to 2014.

Mary Anne Mohanraj Net Worth

Mary Anne Mohanraj is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mary Anne Mohanraj 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Her parents, who originally planned to return Sri Lanka after a few years and were still contemplating the possibility of returning they planned to send the 12-year-old Mary Anne to live with her grandparents for the duration of a period of time “to reconnect” with her home country. Before she was scheduled to leave her father was sent an e-mail. “Don’t send her. There’s trouble coming.” He canceled the trip. In a letter she wrote later,

In the alternative, Mohanraj attended Miss Porter’s School as well as at the University of Chicago and graduated with an M.A. of English Literature in 1993. She has the MFA in English Literature from Mills College (1998) and she holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Utah (2005). She was also a participant in at the Clarion West Writing Workshop in 1997.

Her novel-in-stories, Bodies in Motion, received an honorable mention from the 2007 Asian American Literary Awards and was named a USA Today notable book. In 2006, Mohanraj received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose. She was the co-founder and editor-in-chief for Clean Sheets, an online magazine of erotica, from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 she helped found Strange Horizons, where she was the editor-in-chief through 2003. In 2004 she founded the Speculative Literature Foundation, which she still directs, and is a founding member and Executive Director of Desilit, an organization designed to support South Asian and diaspora writers. Mohanraj founded and is Executive Director of the biennial Kriti Festival, a celebration of South Asian and diaspora literature and arts, founded in 2005. As of 2013, she is Editor-in-Chief of Jaggery, “A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal”. Mohanraj was a host for season 12 of the Writing Excuses podcast.

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Mary Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mary Anne Mohanraj celebrates birthday on July 26 of every year.