Amalia Gnanadesikan is a linguist who studies the atoms of writing—the alphabets and other scripts of the world—and is the author of The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet. Her column on language, Postcards from Babel, formerly appeared in The Vocabula Review. She has turned to writing poetry in retirement, with poems appearing in Vita Brevis and Uppagus. Amalia lives in Maryland, with her husband, three cats, and numerous miniature pineapple plants.
