Sucharita Dutta-Asane is based in Pune. She did her M.Phil in En­glish Literature from the Department of English, University of Pune. In 2008, she received Oxford Bookstores debuting writers' (second) prize for her anthology, The Jungle Stories. Her short stories have appeared in Zubaan's Breaking the Bow, an anthology of speculative fiction based on The Ramayana (2012), Ripples, an Anthology of Short Stories by Indian Women Writers (2010) and in Unisun Publications' Vanilla Desires (2010). Her articles, book reviews, short stories, and a novella, Petals in the Sun have been extensively published across electronic publications. Her short story "Cast Out" is part of the forthcoming Asia-Africa anthology Behind the Shadows, to be available on Amazon Kindle from 1st October 2012. At present Dutta-Asane jug­gles writing with editing and bringing up two very young kids. [Read]