Jenny Bhatt is a writer, translator, and creative writing instructor. A 2025 NEA Translation Fellow, her books include Each of Us Killers and The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories by Dhumketu. Her writing has appeared in various venues, including NPR, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.
Jenny Bhatt
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The Past as a Site of Radical Otherness in Nishant Batsha’s “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart”
“I am a novelist first and a historian second. That’s how the tension you mention resolves itself: I know I’m trying to tell a story.”
