Gaiutra bahadur is a ______ writer.

The correct option is Guyanese.

Gaiutra Bahadur is a Guyanese-American writer, journalist, and researcher. She was born in New Amsterdam, Guyana, and migrated to the United States with her family when she was six years old.
Her work deeply explores themes of migration, colonialism, gender, and the history of the Caribbean diaspora.

She is highly acclaimed for her non-fiction book, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (published in 2013), which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. The book investigates the history of indentured Indian women in the Caribbean, focusing particularly on the journey of her own great-grandmother who traveled from India to British Guiana (present-day Guyana) under the colonial indenture system.