Aekta Khubchandani is a writer from Bombay. She holds a dual MFA in Poetry & Nonfiction from The New School. She is the winner of Breakout Prize 2022 in Poetry and The Baltimore Review’s Winter Contest in Poetry. Her fiction, “Love in Bengali Dialect,” that won the Pigeon Pages Fiction contest, has been nominated for Best American Short Fiction. Besides, her work is nominated for Best of Net (Poetry) 2021 by Nurture Literary, Best Microfiction by Passages North, and Favorite Online Articles and Essays by Entropy. She has works published in Speculative Nonfiction, Penn Review, and elsewhere.
