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Radhika Jha

Radhika Jha is the internationally bestselling author of Smell: A Novel (199), Lanterns On Their Horns (2009) and My Beautiful Shadow (2014). The story “Sleepers” from her short story collection The Elephant and The Maruti (2003) appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. She studied at Amherst College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Paris (V) and lives in Italy/New York. Her latest novel, Hidden Forest (2024) is about identity and what it means to belong.