Kanika Agrawal (she/her) is an Indian writer and mad diasporic hybrid developed across six countries on four continents. She holds a double BS in Biology and Writing from MIT, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, and a PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver. She is Fiction Editor at khōréō, a quarterly magazine of immigrant and diaspora speculative fiction. Her own work appears or is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Black Warrior Review, FOLDER, SAND, The Texas Review, and various SF&F publications. Kanika has received fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Denver, CO, with her senior toy fox terrier. You can also find her online at antiquarkic.com and twitter.com/antiquarkic.