About

While Martha Snehalatha Chandran-Dickerson was born in Madurai on the tip of southern India, she spent her formative years in Brussels, Belgium and Birmingham, England. The remainder of her childhood and early adulthood was spent in Kenya, in Embu and Nairobi. She migrated to America to pursue graduate studies. Though she is an American citizen, she identifies more as a global citizen, having traveled extensively and having resided in four continents, 5 countries, and several cities. As a Third Culture Kid, there is a particularity to her TCK experience. A daughter to a multihyphenated parents which include a statistician/professor/ordained minister/missionary father and an economics lecturer/school principal/pastor/missionary mother who are both Christian Tamilian, South-Indian, she learned to live as an anomaly in the liminal space betwixt religious, cultural, racial and ethnic lines. Therefore as a writer, issues pertaining to spirituality, culture, race, ethnicity, and identity, particularly intersectional identity, are ideas she is intrigued by and topics she often explores.