Naheed Patel, from Nagpur, India, is an MFA Fiction candidate at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Indian Editor-at-Large for Asymptote, an online journal of literary translation. She was a General Contributor in Fiction at the 2015 Breadloaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont, and one of her short stories is forthcoming in the fall 2015 issue of Sou’wester Journal. She currently lives in New York City with her partner.