Sanjena Sathian is the author of the novel Gold Diggers which ​came out in April 2021 and was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel prize, a Best Book of the year by Amazon, an IndieNext Pick, a Vox Book Club pick, and more. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction can be found in Conjunctions, Boulevard, Joyland, Salt Hill, and The Master’s Review and her nonfiction in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, TIME, Food and Wine, and more. She recently founded the Bombay Writers’ Workshop.