Sunu Chandy

Sunu P. Chandy (sher/her) is a queer woman of color and the daughter of immigrants from Kerala, India. Sunu is a social justice activist through her work as a civil rights attorney and a poet. Sunu’s collection of poems, My Dear Comrades, is available for preorder and will be published by Regal House this spring. Sunu’s work can also be found in Asian American Literary Review and Poets on Adoption and in anthologies including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. Sunu started out as a union-side labor and employment lawyer in NYC, and has now worked for many years as a civil rights attorney, including as a litigator with EEOC for 15 years. Sunu is currently the legal director of the National Women’s Law Center and on the board of the Transgender Law Center. Sunu lives in Washington, D.C. with her family.