Lectores Reading Series: Rahul Mehta

Rahul Mehta is the author of a novel, No Other World (Harper, 2017), and a short story collection, Quarantine (HarperPerennial, 2011), which won a Lambda Literary Award and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Epoch, The Sun, Noon and the prize anthology New Stories from the South. His essays have appeared on the op-ed page of the New York Times and in the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune and Marie Claire India.

Named to Out magazine’s “Out 100” list of inspiring individuals for 2011, Mehta lives in Philadelphia and teaches creative writing at the University of the Arts. For more about his work, please visit his website: rahulmehtawriter.com.