Indrani Sen is a freelance writer who has written for The New York Times, Village Voice, Saveur magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, and thenation.com, among other publications. Sen was a staff reporter at Newsday from 2001 to 2005, where she covered politics and wrote crime, breaking news, and feature stories. She was the special writer of American Lives – a Newsday-published book of profiles of those killed on Sept. 11, 2001. Previously she held reporter positions at various Boston area newspapers, including the Bay State Banner, a paper covering Boston’s black and Latino communities. She was a writer in residence and journalism teacher at Bronx Academy of Letters, a public high school from 2007 to 2009. She holds a B.A. in English literature and language from Oxford University and an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.