Vishwas R. Gaitonde's formative years were spent in India. He has lived in Britain and now resides in the United States. Distinctions include residencies in fiction at The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (Minnesota), scholarships to the Tin House and Sewanee writers' conferences, and fellowships to The Summer Literary Seminar (Canada) and Hawthornden Castle Writers Residency (Scotland). He was a finalist for The Chautauqua Institution's Janus Prize "for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers' imaginations." His stories have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Epiphany, Gargoyle, The Iowa Review, Kweli, The MacGuffin, and Santa Monica Review, among other places.