Women Who Misbehave

Sayantani Dasgupta's short stories are witty well-crafted andwondrous. Compulsively readable Dasgupta's stories announce anexciting new talent in Indian fiction.' About the Author An alumna of St. Stephen's College and Jawaharlal Nehru University Sayantani Dasgupta received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. She is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is the author ofFire Girl: Essays on India America & the In-Between-a finalist for the Foreword Indies Awards for Creative Nonfiction-and the chapbookThe House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood. Her writing has appeared in over fifty literary journals and magazines includingThe Hindu The Rumpus Scroll Economic & Political Weekly IIC Quarterly Chicago Quarterly Review and others. She has been awarded a Centrum Foundation Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. Besides the US she has taught creative writing in India Italy and Mexico. Sayantani is also the winner of Season 3 of Write India adjudged by the novelist Kavita Kane and organized by the Books division ofThe Times of India.