Meghna Pant is the award-winning author of Happy Birthday (July 2013, Random House) and One & A Half Wife (May 2012, Westland).One And A Half Wife - Meghna's debut novel - won the national literary Muse India Young Writer Award and was shortlisted for other awards, including the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.Her first short story collection, Happy Birthday, was longlisted for the FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD, the world's biggest short story prize. The book was said to be "in the front row of Indian short fiction; a gem from the subcontinent" by The Sunday Guardian.Noted authors like Jeet Thayil have described Meghna's writing as 'deft, merciless, expertly-tuned', Ashwin Sanghi as 'provocative and inspirational', and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni as 'surprising and moving'.Meghna's short stories have been published in over a dozen global literary magazines, including Avatar Review, Wasafari, Eclectica and QLRS.Meghna has lived in Delhi, Singapore, Zurich, Dubai and New York City. She is currently based in Mumbai.