Rahul Mehta is the author of the novel No Other World and the short story collection Quarantine. Their work has been awarded a Lambda Literary Award and an Asian American Literary Award and has appeared in numerous publications, including the Kenyon Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Georgia Review, The Sun, and the New York Times Magazine. Born and raised in West Virginia in a Gujarati American household, they teach creative writing in Philadelphia, where they live with their partner and their dog.