Piyali (she/her) is a fiction and nonfiction writer, and Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania’s Creative Writing Program. Her novel-in-progress, An Inventory of Errors, was twice runner up for the Key West Literary Seminar Novel-in-Progress Award. Bhattacharya is the editor of the National Endowment for the Arts grant-winning anthology Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion (Aunt Lute Books, 2016). The book was awarded gold medals from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Indie Next Book Awards. Good Girls Marry Doctors is currently in development with Netflix as a dramedy series. She has been teaching at the University of Pennsylvania since 2020, and in 2022 was awarded the endowed Abrams chair in Creative Writing. Immediately following, she was awarded the Beltran Prize for Innovative Teaching and Mentoring. Both honor the work she does in and out of the classroom for students of color and other marginalized groups. Bhattacharya holds a B.A. in English Literature from Bryn Mawr College (2007), an M.A. in Critical Media and Ethnography from SOAS—University of London (2009), and an M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Wisconsin—Madison (2016), where she was awarded the Peter Straub Prize for Fiction.