Piyali Bhattacharya is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Wall Street Journal. Her edited anthology, Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion, won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and is forthcoming from Aunt Lute Books in 2016. Piyali is currently completing an MFA. in fiction at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. An excerpt of her novel-in-progress won the 2015 Peter Straub Award for Fiction. She can be reached at piyalibhattacharya.com.