Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Tin House.com, Michigan Quarterly Review, Chattahoochee Review, jellyfish review, aaduna, and elsewhere, with poetry in Indolent Books/ What Rough Beast, Quiddity, Natural Bridge, Ithaca Lit, apt magazine and Hobart. She is a MacDowell Colony fellow and received scholarships to the Muse & Marketplace and Squaw Valley Writers Workshop. Her work has received several Pushcart Prize anthology nominations.