V. V. Ganeshananthan is the author of the novels Brotherless Night, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and an NPR Book of the Year, and Love Marriage. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the American Academy in Berlin. She has served as visiting faculty at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota, where she is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor of English. She co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.