Shalvi Jaxay is a writer, aspiring translator, and critic living between Ahmedabad and New York City. She has been a recipient of the Teaching Fellowship at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she got her MFA in fiction and translation. Her fiction, nonfiction, and criticism can be found in/is forthcoming from Epiphany, Wasafiri, Columbia Journal, the Desi Books platform, the New York Times, and elsewhere.