Beena Kamlani is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American, eds. Gillan (1999), Growing Up Ethnic in America, eds. Gillan (1999), The Lifted Brow (2008), World Literature Today and other publications. She received the Yeovil Fiction Award (Somerset, England), for a novel in progress in 2017. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts, and Hedgebrook. As a former senior editor at the Penguin Group, she worked with many literary luminaries and taught book editing at New York University for nearly two decades, earning their award for teaching excellence. Her first novel, The English Problem, will be published in January 2025.