Shipra Agarwal is a doctor-turned-writer from India, pursuing an MFA in fiction from Arizona State University. She is a 2024 Tin House Summer Workshop scholar and an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Her work has been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize and the Pushcart Prize; shortlisted for the First Pages Prize; published in Witness magazine, Janus Literary, and Flashflood Journal; and supported by Sundress Academy for the Arts, Anaphora Arts, GrubStreet, and Women’s National Book Association. Shipra serves as the fiction editor for the Best of the Net anthology. She is working on a novel-in-stories.