Vishwas Gaitonde (’14/’22) spent his formative years in India, has lived in England, and now resides in the United States. His short story collection On Earth As It Is In Heaven won the 2023 Orison Fiction Prize and has been published by Orison Books. Distinctions include two writing residencies at The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (Minnesota) and two fellowships at The Hawthornden Castle International Writers Retreat (Scotland). He was a finalist in The George Floyd Short Story Competition conducted by the Nottingham Writers Studio, Nottingham, England, and his story was published in the anthology Black Lives, in Britain. He was a finalist for The Chautauqua Institution’s Janus Prize “ for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers’ imaginations.” vishwasgaitonde.com