Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Agni, Epoch, The Louisville Review, Harvard Review, Story Quarterly, and elsewhere. She was a recipient of a Transatlantic Review award from the Henfield Foundation in 1993, and a fiction prize from The Louisville Review in 1997. From 1997-98 she was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first book, Interpreter of Maladies, a collection of stories, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in spring of 1999.

Lahiri was born in 1967 in London, England, and raised in Rhode Island. She has traveled several times to India, where both her parents were born and raised, and where a number of the stories in Interpreter of Maladies are set. She is a graduate of Barnard College, where she received a B.A. in English literature, and of Boston University, where she received an M.A. in English, M.A. in Creative Writing and M.A. in Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

She currently lives in New York City, where she is working on a novel.