American for Beginners (Franqui) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1987
• Where—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Education—B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., New York University
• Currently—lives in Mumbai, India


Leah Franqui is a graduate of Yale University and received an MFA at NYU-Tisch. She is a playwright and the recipient of the 2013 Goldberg Playwriting Award, and also wrote a web series for which she received the Alfred Sloan Foundation Screenwriting award (aftereverafterwebseries.com).

A Puerto Rican-Jewish Philadelphia native, Franqui lives with her Kolkata-born husband in Mumbai. America for Beginners is her first novel. (From the publisher.)