Padma Viswanathan‘s books have been published in eight countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and others. Her most recent books are Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime and The Charterhouse of Padma: A Novel. Her short fiction, essays and translations have appeared in Granta, The Boston Review, BRICK and elsewhere. Full-length translations include São Bernardo, by Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos, and Where We Stand by philosopher Djamila Ribeiro. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas—Fayetteville, where she is Founding Director of the Arkansas International Writer at Risk Residency Program.

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