Meena Ramakrishnan

Meena Ramakrishnan is a writer and meditation facilitator currently living in San Rafael, California. Her work has appeared in local newspapers and trade magazines amongst other publications. Meena has won the Melody Clarke Teppola Creative Writing Prize in creative nonfiction and the Leila Abu-Saba Prize for an emerging writer in prose. She is a recipient of the Arts Grant from Multicultural Center of Marin and a fellow of Muses & Melanin. She is currently working on a memoir about the 2020 pandemic, which has a working title of The Undoing.

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The house we live in is built into the side of a hill where invasive French broom and oleander plants grow wild after it rains. The treetops above the ridge shield the state of the sky, so I look to the west to see what kind of day it will be. Usually visible is Mount Tamalpais, a point so tall it pokes above the thick, opaque fog that rolls in and out like the tide.
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