Rahul Mehtaβs debut short story collection, Quarantine, won a Lambda Literary Award and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Sun, New Stories from the South, the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, Marie Claire India, and other publications. An Out magazine βOut 100β honoree, he lives in Philadelphia with his partner and their dog, and teaches creative writing at the University of the Arts.