Ajay Patri has an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Sonny Mehta Fellow. His writing has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and has appeared in The Rumpus. His work has also received support from the South Asia Speaks Foundation, the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, the John C. Shupe Fellowship and James Patterson’s Go Finish Your Book! grant campaign.

A qualified lawyer, Ajay has a degree in law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He splits his time between Bangalore and Iowa City.