Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati is an award-winning author, award-winning teacher, engaging speaker, innovative consultant, and professor in women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Hawai`i.

She is the author and co-editor of five books, including Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia, which won 2013 National Women’s Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa book award, and Scarred: A Feminist Journey through Pain, which won 2024 Association of American Publishers PROSE book award for Biography/Autobiography, 2024 Next Generation Indie Book award, and was included in Library Journals Best Books of 2023.

Her work has been included as one of Meridians journal’s most impactful works in the past twenty years, and mentioned in The Economist, Aljazeera, Deutsche Welle, Ms. magazine, Publishers’ Weekly, Vogue Australia, SBS Radio Australia, among others. She is also an acquisition editor at Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal, a board member of WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), and associate consultant at “EVERYBODY consulting.”

She received her PhD in women’s studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. She lives in Honolulu.

Email: luhayu@gmail.com

Address:
University of Hawai`i, Manoa
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2424 Maile Way
722 Saunders Hall
Honolulu, HI 96822