Born in India, Swati Khurana is a New York-based artist and writer. Her essays and fiction have been published in The New York Times, Guernica, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Offing, The Rumpus, Art-India and in the Good Girls Marry Doctors anthology. She has received fellowships and residencies from Jerome Foundation, Kundiman, Bronx Arts Council, Center for Books Arts, Center for Fiction, Cooper Union, Bronx Museum, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. In 1997, she was a founding member of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC), an organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility, and development of emerging and established South Asian women artists across disciplines.

Swati’s story for We/She is We Hate Daddy’s Girlfriends