Kalpana Negi studied Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh and has an MFA from the University of Memphis, where she taught fiction, and read for the literary magazine The Pinch. Her short stories have been chosen as finalists for several literary magazine contests, and her work is published or forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Five Points, EVENT Poetry, Prose and the University of Memphis Magazine among other journals. She has attended the Tin House Summer Workshop and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She’s currently the Prose Editor at The Adroit Journal and lives in Indianapolis.