Sruthi Narayanan is a fiction-writer and essayist with an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BA from Wellesley College. She was the first-prize fiction winner of the 2020 Francine Ringold Award, hosted by Nimrod International Journal, and her work has additionally appeared in Mississippi Review and Copper Nickel. Sruthi is a Kundiman fellow and has received support from the Anderson Center, the AWP Intro Journals Project, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and elsewhere.