Shubha Sunder’s debut short story collection, Boomtown Girl, won the St. Lawrence Book Award and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She has published stories and essays in New Letters, The Common, Narrative Magazine, Catapult, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. Her fiction has received honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories, won the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and Narrative “30 Below,” and been shortlisted for The Flannery O’Connor Award, The Hudson Prize, and The New American Fiction Prize. A recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and the City of Boston Artist Fellowship, she teaches creative writing at GrubStreet and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
