I am a fiction writer, poet, and translator from Hindi and Italian.

 

I am currently an MFA Candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa, and a Graduate Research Assistant for the International Writing Program.

 

I am a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where I was the Truman Capote and Sonny Mehta Fellow in fiction, and a recipient of the Howard J. and Patricia M. Kerr Scholarship.

 

I am the editor-in-chief and founder of Inklette Magazine (on hiatus), an Associate Poetry Editor for The Bombay Literary Magazine, and served as poetry reader for The Iowa Review. 

 

I hold Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Comparative Literature from New York University, where I specialized in Italian Studies and wrote my thesis on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. 

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My work has received support from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Yale Writers' Workshop, the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference, the Juniper Writing Institute at UMass Amherst, the Stanley Award for International Research from the University of Iowa, and the SALT Travel Grant for Translators by the South Asian Literature in Translation (SALT) Project at the University of Chicago.

 

In 2025, I received the James Michener-Copernicus Society Award from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was named a finalist for American Short Fiction's 2025 Halifax Ranch Prize. My poem received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Prufer Poetry Prize judged by Nicky Beer, and my fiction and poetry was long-listed for the 2022 Toto Award for Creative Writing in English.

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I have worked for Between The Lines by The International Writing Program, Iowa Young Writers' Studio, Upward Bound program at the University of Iowa, Emily Dickinson Museum, The Tutorverse, The Quarantine Train, Fledgling Writing Workshops, Poets House, NYU La Pietra Dialogues, UniRely, NYU Department of Comparative Literature, Winter Tangerine Review workshops, and Muzzle Magazine among others. 

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My poetry collection, Small Talk, was published by Writers Workshop Kolkata in Fall 2019, and carried a foreword written by Akhil Katyal. 

 

I am currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories as well as a translation of Mayank Jain Parichha's Hindi short story collection, Nietzsche Gets a Thrashing/नित्शे की कुटाई (Unbound Script Books, 2026).

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I am from Bhopal, India, and currently live in Iowa City.