V.V. Ganeshananthan is the author of the novels Brotherless Night, winner of the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, the 2024 Carol Shields Prize, and the 2023 Asian Prize, and Love Marriage, longlisted for the 2009 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications. The National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, and the American Academy in Berlin have awarded her fellowships, and she is a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Since 2017, she has co-hosted the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota, where she is a Professor of English.