Indira Ganesan is a novelist and fiction writer. She is the author of The Journey (Alfred A. Knopf, 1990) and Inheritance (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), which was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers selection. A two-time Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she has also received fellowships from the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the MacDowell Colony and the Paden Institute for Writers of Color. She also teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received her MFA from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and teaches fiction and essay writing workshops.