Author: Padma Hejmadi

Padma Hejmadi has also written under the name of Padma Perera, publishing poetry, collected fiction and a memoir, Room to Fly. Shorter work has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere, with French translations of her Parabola essays in Initiations. She is represented in anthologies of International Literature, Women's Writing, and Salman Rushdie'sMirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing.

As visual artist and photographer she has exhibited in national group and solo shows, with work included in several private collections.