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Ruthvika Rao is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and recipient of the Henfield Prize in fiction. She was born in Warangal district, Telangana, and grew up in Hyderabad. Her short fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, New Letters, StoryQuarterly, and elsewhere.

Mashrur Arefin is an award-winning Bengali novelist, poet, and translator from Bangladesh, with four published novels, three volumes of poetry, and Bengali translations of Homer’s Iliad, and The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka.