Vikram Kapur has published three novels—The Assassinations, The Wages of Life and Time Is a Fire. His short stories and essays have appeared in World Literature Today, Litro, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Hong Kong Review, Mekong Review, Ambit, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Berlin Quarterly, Huffington Post, The Punch Magazine, The Hindu Literary Review, The Times of India, Himal Southasian, and other publications. His short stories have been shortlisted or longlisted in several international competitions which include, among others, Britain’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize and Ireland’s Fish International Short Story Prize. He has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Canserrat Arts Center and Under the Volcano. He has a PhD in creative and critical writing from the University of East Anglia where he received the India-Africa bursary. He has taught in the UK, USA and India. He is currently professor and head of English at the Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence in India. His website is www.vikramkapur.com.
