Jai Chakrabarti

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JAI CHAKRABARTI's short fiction has appeared in numerous journals and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Short Stories, and awarded a Pushcart Prize. Chakrabarti was an Emerging Writer Fellow with A Public Space and received his MFA from Brooklyn College. He was born in Kolkata, India, and now splits his time between Brooklyn, NY and the Hudson Valley. A Play for the End of the World is his first novel (Knopf, 2021). His short story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness will be published by Knopf in 2022.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2017

O Henry Prize Stories 2017

Pushcart (Fiction) 2018

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