Jai Chakrabar­ti is the author of the nov­el A Play for the End of the World (Knopf), which won the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award for debut fic­tion and is long-list­ed for the PEN/​Faulkner Award. He is the author of the forth­com­ing sto­ry col­lec­tion A Small Sac­ri­fice for an Enor­mous Hap­pi­ness (Knopf, 2023). His short fic­tion has appeared in numer­ous jour­nals and has been anthol­o­gized in The O. Hen­ry Prize Sto­ries, The Best Amer­i­can Short Sto­ries, and award­ed a Push­cart Prize. He was an Emerg­ing Writer Fel­low with A Pub­lic Space and received an MFA in Cre­ative Writ­ing from Brook­lyn Col­lege and is a trained com­put­er sci­en­tist. Born in Kolkata, India, he now lives in New York with his family.