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Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer and PEN American Robert W. Bingham Debut Fiction Prize finalist for White Dancing Elephants: Stories, which also received the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. Her work has appeared in Salon, Lit Hub, Bustle, Longreads, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among others. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics, other myths and histories, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by queer and other diverse women of color.