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Akil Kumarasamy is the author of the story collection, Half Gods, (2018) and a debut novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, forthcoming in August 2022. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. She is a member of the steering committee for the Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat at the Institute.