Director

Monona Wali

Directing

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 1566344

IMDb ID: nm0907434

Known for: Directing

Born: August 3, 1955

Age: 70

Place of birth: Benares, India

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1979 - 1991

Years active: 13

Average TMDB rating: 6.66

Wikidata: Q125997331

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Biography

Monona Wali is a short story writer and novelist, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. Her stories have been published in The Santa Monica Review, Stone Canoe, Tiferet, Catamaran, A Journal of South Asian American Literature and other literary journals. She was born in Benares, India, and immigrated to the United States with her family as a young child. She has two grown daughters, Kanchan and Maya Wali-Richardson. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and teaches creative writing at Santa Monica College and volunteers with InsideOut Writers, an organization that offers writing classes for incarcerated youth.

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