Creative writing (poetry and creative nonfiction), folklore of the African Diaspora, the proverb, disability studies, culture studies, film studies. Intersections between race, gender, and embodiment.  https://www.prahladauthor.com

Anand Prahlad is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, editor, scholar, song writer, and musician. He is the author of two books of poems, Hear My Story and Other Poems (Berkeley Poets Cooperative and Press, 1980), and As Good As Mango (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2012). He has published widely in American literary journals and is author of the memoir, The Secret Life of a Black Aspie, (University of Alaska Press, 2017), which won the Permafrost Book Prize in Nonfiction. In addition to his creative work, he has published two scholarly books on black folklore, African American Proverbs in Context (University Press of Mississippi, 1996) and Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music (University Press of Mississippi, 2001), and has authored many journal articles on topics in African American and Caribbean folklore. Prahlad has also edited two encyclopedias, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, 3 volumes (Greenwood Press, 2005), and African American Folklore: An Encyclopedia for Students, 1 volume (Greenwood Press, 2016). Prahlad is currently working on two manuscripts of poems, My Life as a Banned Book, and How Do You Get the Girl Out of the Box, both of which explore intersections of disability, gender fluid identity, and blackness. He is also working on a second book of creative nonfiction, Canaan’s Hill, a hybrid text that connects his family lineage on a Virginia plantation to contemporary political and personal topics. Prahlad is also compiling an anthology of poems by black poets that reflect perspectives on disabilities, tentatively titled The Tenders.