Sucharita Dutta-Asane is based in Pune. She did her MPhil 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), Behind the Shadows, an anthology of short stories from Asia and Africa available on Amazon Kindle, 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. At present she jug­gles writing with editing and bringing up two very young kids. [Read]