Kiran Kaur Saini is a Pushcart Prize nominated Punjabi-American writer of literary and speculative fiction. Her work has also been awarded the Henfield Prize for Fiction, nominated for the Premios Ignotus, and recommended to the Nebula Awards Recommended Reading list. Her stories appear regularly in both literary and speculative journals, including Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, Pleiades, Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Glimmer Train, and have been selected for inclusion in Best Small Fictions. Kiran’s work has been supported by the North Carolina Council for the Arts, the Speculative Literature Foundation, and the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, as well as by fellowship residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Djerassi Fine Arts Work Program, and Blue Mountain Center. She was the Octavia E. Butler scholar at Clarion West in 2023. Her work has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and has been published in Canada, Australia, India, and Brazil. Kiran has taught creative writing at University of Louisiana, and she is currently an Associate Editor, Narrator, and Host at Podcastle. A 15-year veteran of the Los Angeles film industry, she stepped away from her career in film production at the start of the pandemic to become a full-time caregiver to her elderly mom.