Akil Kumarasamy is a recent graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she received a Meijer postgraduate fellowship, Henfield Prize, and Frederick Busch Prize. She was a 2013-2014 Charles Pick South Asian fiction fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her fiction has appeared in the Boston Review and is forthcoming in Glimmer Train and The Massachusetts Review.