Meera Nair’s debut collection Video (NY:Pantheon) was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year and won the Sixth Annual Asian-American Literary Award. A recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Queens Council for the Arts and MacDowell Colony, you can find her work in the Threepenny Review, the New York Times, NPR's Selected Shorts, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and in several anthologies here and abroad. She has an MA from Temple University and a MFA from NYU. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens and tweets at @MeeraNairNY.