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Hi, I’m Malavika! (Pronounced Mah-love-eeka. Take it slow. You got this.) Men online have called me a “liberal twig of a woman,” “future single mom,” and “decent writer, minus the social justice,” but I prefer to call myself a 21-year-old author, essayist, and dumbass of color (DOC) with a lot to say, most of the time. My gay YA coming-of-age novel, All the Yellow Suns, is releasing from Little & Brown in the summer of 2023. I also write about identity, Gen-Z, culture, and politics across the Internet, including for Teen Vogue, Refinery29, The Lily, HuffPost, and NYLON. I am currently studying a range of financially impractical subjects at Stanford University, namely literature, women’s and gender studies, race, and ethnicity.

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