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Uma Menon is a writer from Winter Park, Florida. She is the author of Hands for Language (Mawenzi House, 2020) and My Mother's Tongues (Candlewick Press, 2023). Her work has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Progressive, The Massachusetts Review, and other publications. Menon was the 2019–2020 Youth Fellow for the International Human Rights Art Festival and a 2020–2021 Encore Public Voices Fellow.