She is the author of The Far Field, which won the second JCB Prize for literature, India's most prestigious literary award.
[2][3][1][4] In 2009, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa[5] from Lawrence University, where she studied psychology and English.
[2] After graduation, she received a Watson Fellowship, which took her to South Africa, Malaysia, and Tanzania while studying people from India living in foreign lands.
[1][2][3] Her debut novel on Kashmir, The Far Field, won the JCB Prize for literature,[3] considered the highest literary award in India.
[1] Her writing has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Narrative Magazine and Salon, among other publications.