An alumna of St. Stephen’s College and JNU, Sayantani Dasgupta is the author of Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between—a Finalist for the 2016 Foreword Indies Awards—and the chapbook The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood. Her writings have appeared in several national and international publications, and she teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.