Madhuri Vijay is an author and teacher.Vijay's writing has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Narrative Magazine, the New Yorker, and Salon. Her first book, "The Far Field," was published in 2019, and won the JCB Prize for literature, India's most prestigious literary award.Vijay was born and raised in Bangalore, India. She graduated from Lawrence University, where she studied psychology and English. After graduation, she received a Watson Fellowship, which took her to South Africa, Malaysia, and Tanzania while studying people from India living in foreign lands. Halfway through the fellowship, she left to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.