ena ganguly (she/they) is a soft-spirited Bengali femme – a storyteller, healer, and lifelong student. Born in Bihar and raised in Texas, ena never saw herself in popular media, including literature. They began to write in order to witness a life, their life, that would otherwise be erased in the wave of time. Their work focuses on collective memory, grief, healing, state violence, surveillance, and sensuality and has been featured in BBC, Buzzfeed, KUT Austin Radio, The Austin Chronicle, COURIER Newsroom, and exhibited in Austin, TX at Prizer Arts and Letters and allgo.

ena has facilitated countless writing workshops for survivors, queer people of color, students, and healing practitioners. They edited Home-Making: On Belonging, Transience, and Memory, in collaboration with the City of Austin’s Asian American Resource Center, and Search & Find, an anthology by Roots. Wounds. Words. and Carnegie Hall. Currently, they are learning and subverting form while creating new work. 

In their free time, ena likes to get boba and play on her Nintendo Switch.