RUTHVIKA RAO was born in Warangal district, Telangana, and grew up in Hyderabad, India. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and recipient of the Henfield Prize in fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in El Georgia Review, La Revista del Sur, Nuevas cartas, StoryQuarterly, y en otros lugares. The Fertile Earth: A Novel (Flatiron Books) is her debut work of fiction.