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Ranbir Sidhu’s books include Deep Singh Blue (2016), Good Indian Girls (2012), Object Lessons (in 12 Sides w/Afterglow) (2016), Hacking Trump A Writer Remembers (2018), and a chapbook The Fabulary (1997). He is a winner of the Pushcart Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, among other awards.

His work appears in Conjuctions, The Georgia Review, Fence, Zyzzyva, The Missouri Review, Other Voices, The Happy Hypocrite, The Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Vice, The Wire, The Towner, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Terrain, and The Nation. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Village Voice and Gawker.

His essay, “The Indian Wedding that Exploded in Violence,” was selected as one of the Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen. His novel Dark Star was a shortlist finalist for the 2021 Dzanc Prize for Fiction. He is the author of several full-length plays, including True East…, Sangeet, and Conquistadors, and has been awarded residencies by the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Villa Montalvo.

All photographs © by Ranbir Sidhu, unless otherwise stated. Republish only with written permission.