Shubha Sunder's fiction has appeared in numerous journals, among them Crazyhorse, where it won the 2015 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize; Narrative Magazine, where it was a winner of "30 Below," Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Bangalore Review. Two of her stories were named "Distinguished Stories of 2015" by Junot Díaz in the Best American Short Stories 2015 anthology. She was a 2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, a 2015 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a work-study scholar at the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences.  She grew up in Bangalore, India, and now lives in Boston, MA, where she is an instructor at GrubStreet.