Shilpi Malinowski is a writer, oral historian, and journalist whose work explores themes of migration, memory, and belonging. She is the author of “Shaw, LeDroit Park and Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C.: An Oral History,” (The History Press, 2021), which chronicles seventy years of transformation in one of D.C.’s most rapidly gentrified neighborhoods. The book was selected for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s Writers in Schools program, incorporated into curricula across public and private schools, and sold out its first print run within a year. The DC Line called it “a literary third space.”
Her reporting has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, India Abroad, and Oral History Review, among other outlets. She has received multiple fellowships and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and HumanitiesDC, and has presented her work at national conferences, universities, and public events. In addition to her writing, Shilpi has taught journalism, yoga, and Model UN at the high school level, and remains deeply involved in civic storytelling and education.
Shilpi lives in Washington, D.C., where she is currently working on her second book — a hybrid work of personal essays and immigrant oral histories — that traces the arc of a life shaped by diaspora, from childhood through parenting and loss.
You can read a bit of it in the New York Times here.
Shilpi is also gathering stories about community building from residents of Mount Pleasant, D.C.
Reach out at shilpi.malinowski@gmail.com if you want to collaborate!
