Apoorva Bradshaw-Mittal (they/she) is a gender/queer author from northern India. They hold a PhD in Creative Writing from University of Southern Mississippi, a B.Tech. in Software Engineering from Delhi Technological University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. They want to tell stories that break the monolith of the desi diaspora and present desi queerness in all its twisted beauty. Their short stories and essays have appeared and are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Catapult, Electric Literature and elsewhere. They are a 2023 Roots Wounds Words Retreat for Storytellers of Color Scholar, a 2022 Lambda Literary Fiction Fellow, and an alum of 2022 Tin House Winter Workshop. They teach undergraduate and graduate fiction at Ohio University. They can be found on Instagram and Twitter @MittalWrites.