Veena Gokhale

Veena Gokhale, an immigrant shape shifter, has worked as a journalist, teacher, reviewer, literary curator, and in the non-profit sector. Annapurna’s Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold is her latest book. Annapurna’s Bounty is included in several recommended reading lists, among them, CBC’s 14 Canadian short story collections to read for Short Story Month, and July 2025 reads in Ms. Magazine, USA. She has also taught Indian vegetarian cooking classes in both French and English. Having lived in ten cities across three countries, she now calls Tiohtià:ke-Montréal home.