Amy Waldman’s first novel, The Submission, will be published this August by Farrar Straus & Giroux. Her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic and the Boston Review and been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010. She was previously a reporter for the New York Times, including three years as co-chief of the South Asia bureau, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She lives in Brooklyn.