Aarti Monteiro is a fiction writer and educator. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers University-Newark and has received support from VONA/Voices, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Tin House Writers' Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. A Kundiman Fellow, her work has been published in Cosmonauts Avenue, Epiphany Magazine, wildness, and Kweli Journal. She lives in Chicago.
