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Parvati (Parvi) Ramchandani has been writing short fiction, personal essays, creative non-fiction and memoir for over three decades. She has published her work in such journals as Peregrine, Asian Pacific American Journal, and Bucks County writer), and has pieces slated for publication by Oxford University Press, in an anthology of writings by Women Physicians. In 1998, she won an award from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. In 2023, she was awarded an Edith Wharton Writing Residency in partnership with the Straw Dog Writers Guild of Western Massachusetts; 9 writers and poets were selected from a pool of 450 applicants. She was raised in Delhi, India. A recently retired radiologist, she worked for many decades in Academic medical centers in Philadelphia. She currently splits her time between the Philadelphia suburbs and Washington D. C. to help with care for her four grandchildren. She has interests in gardening, cooking, and knitting but looks forward most eagerly to compiling a collection of creative nonfiction pieces relating to food in the near future. Food and cooking have always been one of her passions. Writing about it has uncovered for her the stark societal constraints of the traditional Indian family, which serves to keep women enmeshed in the labor of daily cooking and other mundane household chores, an issue that was not fully apparent to her as a child growing up in India. Her mother, a college educated woman who graduated with a BS in Science, spent her waking hours tending to her family. It was only as Parvi matured that she recognized her mother’s fierce advocacy for a different life for her daughters. Her memoir will serve as a homage to her mother and the other women around the world who keep home fires thriving.
