Anu Jindal is a fiction writer and educator. A MacDowell fellow, Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writer fellow, and NYFA Immigrant Artist fellow, his work has been supported by grants & residencies from MacDowell, the Center for Fiction, the Jerome Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Headlands Center for the Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, Lighthouse Works, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and Queens Council for the Arts. His short stories have appeared in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Joyland, The New Quarterly, Matrix, and elsewhere, and he has written and edited non-fiction for Electric Literature. He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

He currently teaches creative and academic writing at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The School of The New York Times, and CUNY Baruch College, and in the past at Gotham Writer’s Workshop, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and JASA RNA NORC. He grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and now lives in New York.