Ravi Mangla is the author of The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil) and Understudies (Outpost19). His writing has appeared in The AtlanticThe Nation, JacobinThe Kenyon ReviewCincinnati ReviewMid-American ReviewSalonThe Paris Review DailyQuarterly WestAmerican Short FictionTin House Online, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Rochester, NY.