Nishanth Injam grew up in Telangana, India. He received an MFA from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where he won the Chamberlain Award and the Frederick Busch Prize in Fiction. He is the recipient of a PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize and the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Award for emerging writers from the Key West Literary Seminar. His writing has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, Best Debut Short Stories 2021, and The Best American Magazine Writing 2022. He now lives in Chicago.
<p>Hilarious, heartrending, and wise, Nishanth Injam’s stories made me want to cast all else aside and return home.” – Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning</p><p>A young man traveling on a bus to his hometown as his fellow passengers vanish into the restroom…</p><p>A woman returning to a small village in India to visit her grandfather who lives with the ghosts of his son and wife…</p><p>A man preparing for his Green Card interview with the American woman he has paid to marry him…</p><p>The stories in The Best Possible Experience bring us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals haunted, in every sense of the word, by a loss of home. With rare empathy, Nishanth Injam delivers a universal inquiry into the idea of belonging, and shows, above all, that home is not a place so much as a people ready to accept you as you are.</p><p>Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting, these short stories announce the arrival of an incredible new literary talent.</p>
