Parul Kapur
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Parul Kapur

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Parul Kapur was born in Assam, India, grew up in Connecticut, and earned an MFA from Columbia University. Her 2024 debut novel, INSIDE THE MIRROR, about twin sisters who aspire to become artists in 1950s Bombay, won the AWP Award for the Novel and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize and the 2024 New American Voices Award. The story is based on her explorations in Bombay and conversations with some of India's most renowned artists.

Parul's award-winning short stories about the lives of Indian immigrants have appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Prime Number, Midway Journal, and the anthology Extinguished & Extinct (Twelve Winters Press). As an arts journalist and literary critic, she has contributed to The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal Europe, New York Newsday, Esquire, GQ, ARTnews, Art in America, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Slate and The Paris Review. She founded the Books page at ArtsATL, Atlanta’s leading online arts publication, and covered the city’s literary scene for four years. She has appeared on panels at the Jaipur Literature Festival (Houston), the Decatur Book Festival, the Indo-American Council for the Arts and more. The Hambidge Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Jentel Artist Residency have awarded her writing fellowships.
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