Karan Mahajan, 39th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Karan Mahajan was born and grew up in New Delhi, India. His first novel, Family Planning, was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize and was published in nine countries. His second novel, The Association of Small Bombs, was published in the spring of 2016. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR\u27s All Things Considered, The New Yorker online, The Believer, n+1, The Paris Review Daily, and Bookforum. A graduate of Stanford University and the Michener Center for Writers, he lives in Austin, Texas