Meera Nair was born and raised in India and came to the
United States in 1997 to studycreative writing. She
received an M.A. from Temple University and an
M.F.A. from New York University, where she was a
New York Times fellow. Her stories have been published
in The Threepenny Review and Calyx. Nair lives in
Brooklyn with her husband and baby daughter.
Her short story, Video won the PEN/Amazon short story contest in 2000, but was later declared ineligible because of a technicality. The contest was for authors who were unpublished or published only in journals with small circulation. Nair had previously published in The Threepenny Review, which had a larger circulation than first thought. She was allowed to keep the monetary award but the official award was given to the runner-up story.
