Anis ShivaniAnis Shivani's books include Anatolia and Other Stories and The Fifth Lash and Other Stories, both longlisted for the Frank O'Connor award. He has also written My Tranquil War and Other Poems and Soraya: Sonnets. Karachi Raj is his first novel. He ha received a Pushcart Prize and his work appears in many major newspapers and magazines. His fiction, poetry, and essays appear in leading journals like Yale Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Boston Review, The Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, Meanjin, The London Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, The Cambridge Quarterly and elsewhere. He is currently writing a new novel, Abruzzi, 1936, and a book of criticism on new interpretations of realism in the contemporary American novel. He was educated at Harvard College, and lives in Houston, Texas. Read More Read Less