Sangamithra Iyer is an environmental planner, engineer, and writer. She is the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant,a Café Royal Foundation Literature Grant, and the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship at the New York Public Library for her debut book, Governing Bodies: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed. She served as an editor of Satya magazine and as an associate for the environmental public policy action tank Brighter Green. Sangu is also the founder of the Literary Animal Project, a habitat for conversations about how we portray animal lives on the page. She has devoted her career to watershed protection, wildlife coexistence, nature-based stormwater solutions, and sustainable cities. She holds a B.E. in civil engineering from The Cooper Union, an M.S in geotechnical engineering from UC Berkeley, and an MFA in creative writing from Hunter College.
