JANIKA OZA is the author of the novel A History of Burning, winner of the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She is the winner of a 2022 O. Henry Award and the 2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Award. She lives in Toronto.