Jai Chakrabarti
Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World and the story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness. He was an Emerging Writer Fellow with A Public Space, received an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, and is a trained computer scientist.
Biography
Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World, which won a National Jewish Book Award, was the Association of Jewish Libraries Honor Book, was short-listed for the Rabindranath Tagore Prize, and was long-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is also the author of the story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness, which was a Good Housekeeping Book of the Month and was recommended by The New Yorker and The New York Times. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Ploughshares, One Story, Electric Literature, A Public Space, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. His nonfiction has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Writer’s Digest, Berfrois, and LitHub. He was an Emerging Writer Fellow with A Public Space, received an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, and is a trained computer scientist. Born in Kolkata, India, he now lives in New York with his family.