Parul Sehgal is an American literary critic based in New York, who publishes primarily in American venues. She is a former senior editor and columnist at The New York Times Book Review, and was one of the team of book critics at The New York Times. As of December 2021, she was a staff writer at The New Yorker,[1] a position she was first reported to have taken in July 2021.[2] She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.[1]

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Parul Sehgal
Parul Sehgal at the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
Occupation	Book critic, teacher

Early life and education

Sehgal was born outside Washington, D.C.,[3]^[when?] and was raised in India, Hungary, the Philippines and Northern Virginia.[4] She studied political science at McGill University in Montreal.[4] After graduating, she traveled to Delhi to work at an NGO.[4] After returning to the US, she earned an MFA from Columbia University.[4]

Career

Seghal was an editor at Publishers Weekly.[4] In 2012, she became an editor at The New York Times Book Review.[5] Sehgal was a The New York Times book critic from 2017 to 2021.[5] In 2021, she became a staff writer at The New Yorker.[2][6]

Awards and recognition

Sehgal received the 2010 National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.[7][4][1] She won the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum’s OneWorld Prize,^{[citation needed]} and was recognized for her criticism by the New York Press Club.[1]^{[clarification needed][better source needed]}

Personal life

In November 2017, Sehgal described herself as married with a child.[8]

References

External links

• Official website
• Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy, TED talk.

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