Parul Kapur

Parul Kapur is the author of Inside the Mirror, winner the AWP Prize for the Novel, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the New American Voices Award. She was named 2025 Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel. Her articles and reviews appear in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Newsday, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica and The Paris Review. The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Hambidge Center, Loghaven, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Monson Arts and Jentel have offered her writing fellowships. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Atlanta.