Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

Los Angeles-based writer-director-producer, Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla was born in Mombasa, Kenya where he sold his first article to a national magazine at the age of 13. He has since written for various national magazines and his literary and film work have been celebrated at MIT (2004), the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (2009) and at the prestigious Master's Tea at Yale (2011). Dhalla's critically acclaimed debut novel, "Ode to Lata" was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "an achievement" and by Library Journal as "brilliant." In 2008, Dhalla adapted, produced and co-directed his novel into the motion picture "The Ode." Dhalla's second novel, "The Two Krishnas" (AKA "The Exiles" in India) was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and has been praised as "exquisite" by best-selling author Lisa See and "riveting" by lit icon, Andrew Holleran. Dhalla's second film, "Embrace" which he wrote, produced and directed, is part of a trilogy, and the first ever dramatization of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.