Vauhini Vara's short stories have been published or are forthcoming in Tin House, ZYZZYVA, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere, and is at work on a novel and a short-story collection. She earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa, where she studied fiction at the Writers’ Workshop. She has received grants from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and others, and has been a fellow at MacDowell and a guest of the Yaddo Corporation.
During her residency, she worked on her debut novel, The Immortal King Rao (W.W. Norton).
Given
to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday
Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by
glaciers thousands of years ago.
A
small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after
damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without
the dormer. The interior…
