She was the creative writing fellow in fiction at Emory University from 2009 to 2011. Her work has appeared most recently in the Greensboro Review, Salon, The Oxford Anthology of Indian Voices, Aster(ix), Indian Voices, and elsewhere. She has a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. She serves as a fiction editor for the Singapore-based literary journal Kitaab. A version of this story appeared in translation in Bengali in Femina Bangla (Calcutta) in September 2013.