Shanthi Sekaran joined the CCA Writing faculty in Fall 2010. Her first novel, The Prayer Room (MacAdam/Cage) was released in 2009, and she has also published stories in Best New American Voices, The Chattahoochee Review and Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. She earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley, her MFA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University, and is currently completing a Creative Writing PhD from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (UK).

For information on her writing and appearances, go to www.shanthisekaran.com. To watch a video of Shanthi Sekaran reading her short story, "Floating Kibble Everywhere" at the Fourteen Hills release party, go to http://vimeo.com/12195561.

Website: www.shanthisekaran.com