Nayar, Manini: - Manini Nayar is associate teaching professor of English and women's studies at Penn State. She is the recipient of Individual Artist Fellowships in fiction from the Indiana Arts Council and The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her award-winning stories have been broadcast by the BBC World Service and published in Boston Review, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, London Magazine, Stand, the Malahat Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.