Ghazala Datoo O'Keefe

Ghazala Datoo O'Keefe is a writer and physician of Indian and East African descent. She is trained as a uveitis & retina specialist and dabbles in illustration and photography. She holds an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Emory University School of Medicine. 

 

Her work has been published in Short Reads, Isle Magazine, The Bangalore Review, River Teeth's Beautiful Things, Sky Island Journal, and is forthcoming in Under the Gum Tree and Blue Earth Review.

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Her essay, Steps on Assimilation, was nominated by Sky Island Journal for a Pushcart Prize in 2024. 

 

She is an alumna of the 2024 Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop and was selected to participate in the Lighthouse Writers Book Project, Class of 2024-2026.

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Her writing centers on themes of immigration, identity, and belonging, as well as on motherhood. She is working on her debut novel, a memoir about a life lived across continents.