Jai Chakrabar­ti’s 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. Chakrabar­ti was an Emerg­ing Writer Fel­low with A Pub­lic Space and received his MFA from Brook­lyn Col­lege. He was born in Kolkata, India, and now lives in Brook­lyn, New York with his fam­i­ly. A Play for the End of the World is his first novel.