Vishwas R. Gaitonde spent his formative years in India and now resides in the United States. He has been published in literary magazines such as The Iowa Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Epiphany, Pembroke Magazine, and Santa Monica Review, among others. Literary awards include two writing residencies at The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (Minnesota), The Hawthornden Castle Fellowship (Scotland), and the Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers Conference. He was a finalist in The George Floyd Short Story Competition conducted in 2020 by the Nottingham Writers Studio, England, and his story was published in their anthology, Black Lives. His collection of short stories, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, won the Orison Prize in fiction.