Ravi Mangla is the author of The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022) and Understudies (Outpost19, 2013). His writing has appeared in The AtlanticThe Nation, JacobinThe Kenyon ReviewThe Cincinnati ReviewSalonThe Paris Review DailyQuarterly WestThe Brooklyn Rail, Electric Literature, Mid-American Review, American Short Fiction, The Baffler, Wigleaf, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.