Rishi Reddi is the author of the novel Passage West, a Los Angeles Times “Best California Book of 2020,” and Karma and Other Stories, which received the 2008 L. L. Winship /PEN New England Award for Fiction. A National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow for 2021–2022, her reviews, essays and translations have appeared in The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, Alta Journal, Salamander, Partisan Review, Literary Hub, and Air/Light Magazine, among others.