Monona Wali
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1955-08-03 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Benares, India
Monona Wali
Biography
Monona Wali is a short story writer and novelist, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. Her stories have been published in The Santa Monica Review, Stone Canoe, Tiferet, Catamaran, A Journal of South Asian American Literature and other literary journals. She was born in Benares, India, and immigrated to the United States with her family as a young child. She has two grown daughters, Kanchan and Maya Wali-Richardson. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and teaches creative writing at Santa Monica College and volunteers with InsideOut Writers, an organization that offers writing classes for incarcerated youth.
Acting
(1984)
Repo Man
as Nurse
Crew
Fashion For the Future
Director, Writer
(1990)
Maria's Story
Director, Editor
(1982)
Grey Area
Director, Writer
(1979)
Report on Nicaraguan Revolution
Additional Camera