Megha Majumdar is the author of two bestselling novels. Her debut novel, A Burning, was longlisted for the US National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, among other honours. A Guardian and a Thief is longlisted for the Women’s Prize, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick, winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, a finalist for the US National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize and longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Majumdar has received a Whiting Award, as well as fellowships from Civitella Ranieri and the Hawthornden Foundation. Born and raised in Kolkata, India, she now lives in New York.