Jai Chakrabar­ti is the author of the nov­el A Play for the End of the World, which won the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award for debut fic­tion, was long-list­ed for the PEN/​Faulkner Award and short-list­ed for the Tagore Prize. He is also the author of the sto­ry col­lec­tion A Small Sac­ri­fice for an Enor­mous Hap­pi­ness. His short fic­tion has received both an O. Hen­ry Award and a Push­cart Prize and has been anthol­o­gized in the Best Amer­i­can Short Sto­ries and per­formed on Select­ed Shorts by Sym­pho­ny Space. His non­fic­tion has been pub­lished in The Wall Street Jour­nal, Fast Com­pa­ny, and else­where. Born in Kolkata, India, he now lives in New York with his family.