Amita Basu’s fiction appears in more than 85 venues including The Penn Review, Bamboo Ridge, Faultline, Jelly Bucket, Phoebe, and Funicular. She’s contributing editor at Fairfield Scribes Micro, and sustainability columnist and interviews editor at Mean Pepper Vine. Her debut, At Play and Other Stories, is due out with Bridge House Press in 2025. She’s won the Letter Review Prize and Kelp's Shelter in Place contest, and been shortlisted by the Coppice Prize and contests at Phoebe and Five Minute Lit. She lives in Bangalore, works at a climate action thinktank, and blogs at http://amitabasu.com/