Vauhini Vara’s debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice. It has been shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and longlisted for the Tata Literature Live! Literary Awards and the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize. She has also written and edited for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications.