Anu Kandikuppa‘s debut short story collection The Confines features 12 stories about women facing the cultural hierarchies and taboos with a razor-sharp eye into the human condition. Kandikuppa has spent most of her lif outside of the literary world, working as an engineer, a software developer, and an economics consultant. Since beginning writing fiction, her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Story.
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