Description: Panna Naik was born in Bombay and has been living in the United States for many years. She began writing poetry in 1972. is a librarian/lecturer in Gujarati at the University of Pennsylvania.Her short stories have been published in several anthologies, and a collection, Flamingo, was published by Image Publications, Mumbai, in 2003.An emeritus librarian at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Panna Naik holds three Masters degrees (MA in Gujarati and Sanskrit literature from University of Bombay, MS in Library Science from Drexel University in Philadelphia and MS in South Asian Studies from University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia). She also taught two courses in Gujarati at the University of Pennsylvania to second generation Indian Americans who were curious about their cultural heritage and roots.
