Gauraa Shekhar is the author of Notes, forthcoming from word west press.

Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Literary Hub, The Toast, Ninth Letter, Nimrod, Contrary, CRAFT, Sonora Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.

Gauraa is the co-editor in chief of No Contact and a contributing editor for Story Magazine. She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, and currently lives in Richmond,VA with her husband and young dachshund.