MARGARET MASCARENHAS is a novelist, independent curator, consulting editor, and op ed columnist. She is the author of the diasporic novel, Skin, published by Penguin India (2001); in French translation by Mercure de France (2002); in Portuguese translation by Editora Replicacao (2006). Now republished by Broadway Books in association with Goa 1556. She is also the author of the novel,The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos (Grand Central, Hachette 2010) and of the pspoken work poetry/flash and sketch collection Triage--casualties of love and sex  (Harper Collins 2013), and is working on her third novel, Just Another Car Bomb(working title) as well as on collections of her columns and short stories. Her non-fiction has been published in Coloquio Letras, the literary magazine of the Gulbenkian Foundation. She is a regular contributor to Urban Voice, published by Frog Books.