Manini Nayar—winner of the Andre Dubus Short Fiction Award for The Gentle Cycle. Nayar's stories have been published in The Malahat Review, Parnassus : Poetry in Review, Stand Magazine, Boston Review, and London Magazine. She won Boston Review's Short Story Contest in 2001 and Stand Magazine's Fifth Biennial Story Contest, and was a prizewinner in the BBC's International Fiction Contest 2000.