Maunica (she/her) is a fiction writer based in Washington, DC. Her roots are in India, Uganda and Louisiana. She is the daughter of stateless refugees and the mother of two children. Maunica is relatively new to creative writing, and the endeavor of artmaking as a vocation. Her parents did not have the luxury of obtaining a formal education, and she took their scarcity mindset into the field of social justice lawyering. Maunica is a non-traditional emerging writer, as both a woman of color and a middle aged working mom of two. She writes fiction because she believes stories have the magical capacity to connect us to each other, and to the very essence of humanity. Through her writing, she tells stories of non-dominant communities whose voices are not often heard.