V.V. Ganeshananthan is the Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, Love Marriage (Random House), was long-listed for the Orange Prize and named one of The Washington Post Book World’s Best of 2008. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, San Francisco Chronicle, and Unstuck, among other publications. A recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and Phillips Exeter, she is at work on a second novel.