Nishanth Injam received an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michi­gan. He is the recipient of a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and a Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award from the Key West Literary Seminar. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA, The Georgia Review (which won the 2022 ASME award for fiction for its publication of his story), Scroll India, Best Debut Short Stories 2021, and The Best American Magazine Writing 2022.

Raised in Telangana, India, he now lives in Chicago.