Pallavi Wakharkar is a writer living in Los Angeles. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA) and Vanderbilt University (MFA), she has since held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in creative writing at Colgate University, as well as a visiting assistant professorship at Oberlin College. Her debut novel, HOUSESITTING, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books in the US and W&N in the UK.