Chaya Nautiyal Murali is a a pediatric geneticist and personal essayist living in Houston, TX. Her work, which centers on themes of family, identity, and inheritance, has been published in SFWP Quarterly, Aster(ix), Barely South Review, and elsewhere. Chaya can be found tweeting @ChayaSays and occasionally musing about food and culture on Instagram @AkkasHouse. She is currently at work on her first collection of essays.