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