Bindu Bansinath '14, Young Alumna Award Recipient

After graduating from Stuart in 2014, Bindu attended Columbia University and majored in English literature and minored in pre-law; while in school, she held editorial internships at PEN America, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster. She went on to pursue an MFA in writing at Columbia School of the Arts and interned at New York Magazine's Grub Street. Following grad school, she went on to work full-time as an assistant editor at Harper's Magazine before eventually getting hired at New York Magazine's The Cut as a writing fellow, then was brought on as a staff writer. She has been at The Cut for two-plus years, covering news, culture, books, and more. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and others. Her debut novel, MEN LIKE OURS, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2026. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her little poodle mix, Milo.

Bindu has volunteered at Sakhi, an anti-domestic violence organization for South Asian women in NYC, co-taught a free writing workshop at Columbia centered on grief, and fostered at a Brooklyn rescue. She is part of a book club with fellow alum Sianna Peal '14.

Looking back on her years at Stuart, Goal 2 has resonated deeply because she considers herself a lifelong learner who is constantly learning just how little she knows and then filling in the gaps with books and stories: a personal syllabus. It's been fun for her to follow those curiosities through storytelling of her own, which, she thinks, is a kind of wise freedom unto itself.