Beena Kamlani is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American, eds. Gillan, Growing Up Ethnic in America, eds. Gillan , The Lifted Brow, World Literature Today and other publications. She received the Yeovil Fiction Award (Somerset, England), for a novel in progress in 2017. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts, and Hedgebrook. She was an editor at Viking Penguin and taught at New York University, earning an award for teaching excellence. The English Problem, her debut novel, was published in January 2025.