Dipika Mukherjee is the author of two novels: Shambala Junction, which won the UK Virginia Prize for Fiction, and Ode to Broken Things, which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Rules of Desireis her short story collection. She has published three books of poetry, The Palimpsest of Exile(2009), The Third Glass of Wine(2015), and Dialect of Distant Harbors (CavanKerry Press, 2022) and received the Liakoura Poetry Prize in 2016. She teaches at the Graham School at the University of Chicago, as well as StoryStudio Chicago, and holds a doctorate in sociolinguistics. More at dipikamukherjee.com.