Shobha Rao is the author of An Unrestored Woman, a short story collection, and the novels Girls Burn Brighter and Indian Country. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction and was a Grace Paley Teaching Fellow at The New School. Her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories. Girls Burn Brighter has been translated into fifteen languages, and was long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award and the Goodreads Choice Awards. She lives in San Francisco. https://shobharaowrites.com/