Ananda Esteva

Ananda Esteva was born in Chile and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has taught poetry with June Jordan's Poetry for the People,the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts, Digital Underground Story Telling, and Writers' Corps. A gifted storyteller, she intertwines bilingual poetry and song to paint a picture of life in Las Americas. Her writing weaves in a duality of culture, perspective, sexuality, and language. Ananda is currently working on three projects: a children's story about a juggling coyote who treks the wildlands to save his life, a young adult novel about a bass prodigy who goes on an odyssey to reclaim her grandmother's bass, and a memoir detailing her first trip back to Chile in 1987 during Pinochet's dictatorship.