MARGARET MASCARENHAS was a consulting editor, columnist and novelist, the author of the diasporic novel, Skin (Penguin India) and The Disappearance of Irene dos Santos (Grand Central USA) set in modern Venezuela.
An American citizen of Goan origin who grew up in Venezuela, she lived in Goa and was the Director of the Goa Centre for the Arts. She was working on her third novel, Just Another Car Bomb (working title) set in Beirut, as well as on collections of her columns, short stories, and poetry. She taught creative writing to inmates at the Central Jail in Goa.