Kavita Das writes about culture, race, social change, feminism, and their intersections. Her work is featured in several publications including The Rumpus, The Atlantic, VIDA, McSweeney’s,The Margins, Quartz and Colorlines. She was nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and named a finalist for the 2015 New Delta Review Ryan R. Gibbs Award for Flash Fiction. She’s also at work on a biography about Grammy-nominated Hindustani singer, Lakshmi Shankar, who played a pivotal role in bringing Indian music to the West, to be published by Harper Collins India.