Ruthvika Rao
Ruthvika Rao was born in Warangal and grew up in Hyderabad. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and recipient of the Henfield Prize in fiction. She has taught creative writing at the University of Toronto and the University of Iowa. The Fertile Earth (2024), her debut novel, is a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel prize.
