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Meera Subramanian
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Freelance Journalist, Freelance
India, Spain, United States
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Biography
Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home in the personal and planetary sense, especially in a time of climate crisis. Her work has been published in Nature, The New York Times, The NewYorker.com, Inside Climate News, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others, and she is a contributing editor of Orion. She is the author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, which was short-listed for the Orion Book Award. Publishers’ Weekly gave it a starred review, and Kirkus Reviews called it “right thinking and accusatory in all the right places.” Her writing has also been featured in multiple anthologies. Meera is a 2025 grant recipient for the FRONTIERS Journalism Residency Programme, a European Research Council initiative, and in the past she was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT, Fulbright-Nehru senior research fellow, board president of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. Based on a glacial moraine on the edge of the Atlantic, Meera is a perpetual wanderer who can’t stop digging in the dirt to plant perennials and looking up in search of birds.
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Content
By Meera Subramanian, Carlo Rotella, Sarah Khatry, Bethanne Patrick| Virginia Quarterly Review Verified This issue presents a collection of nonfiction held together by the first-person singular, that lynchpin pronoun that can be the conduit to some larger idea, or the confidences of an inner life. Andrew Hudgins offers a wry diary of the days following his wife’s foot surgery. Meera Subramanian recounts her experience donating a kidney to a friend’s boyfriend, someone who ignored his poor health until it led to crisis.
By Meera Subramanian| Virginia Quarterly Review Verified We were two women on either side of thirty throwing punches at one another’s faces in a concrete stairwell abuzz with florescent light. Our instructor showed us how to make a fist (thumbs on the outside), take aim, and put our weight into the shot. I threw punches at her first. She was younger than I was by a handful of years and just as racially ambiguous. Then it was her turn, and I jerked my head to the side to dodge impact, heard the whoosh of fist through air. Fight Club for girls.
By Meera Subramanian| Scientific American Verified NONFICTIONThe Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural Worldby Robin Wall Kimmerer. Scribner, 2024 ($20)Nature provides many gifts, but it is easy to take them for granted. It’s not just the strawberries you buy at the grocery store but also the plastic container that holds them, made of ancient life-forms transformed into fossils and then feedstock for plastics.
Company Info
Freelance
Freelancer.com is the largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, connecting over 81 million employers and freelancers across more than 247 countries. Founded in 2009 and based in Sydney, Australia, the platform allows employers to post jobs while freelancers can bid on these projects. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN. The platform supports a variety of work categories, including software development, writing, design, and marketing. Freelancer.com also offers contests for creative work, where employers can award prize money to winning entries. Users can choose from different membership plans, including free and paid subscriptions, which provide various benefits. The mobile app enhances project management and communication for users on the go. With a diverse customer base that includes individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises, Freelancer.com plays a significant role in the global online economy.
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