Hirsh Sawhney is the author of a novel, South Haven, which has been selected as a 2016 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. His articles and essays have appeared in the ;New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, the Indian Express, the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times, Outlook, and numerous other periodicals. He is the editor of Delhi Noir, a critically-acclaimed anthology of original fiction. Hirsh is an advisory editor at Wasafiri, a magazine of international writing based out of the Open University. He was formerly a Spanish translator for the Independent Press Association of New York and also ran adult education program serving undocumented workers in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. He currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and teaches at Wesleyan University.