Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World, which won the National Jewish Book Award, was the Association of Jewish Libraries Honor Book, was short-listed for the Tagore Prize, and was long listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is also the author of the story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness, which was a Good Housekeeping Book of the Month and was recommended by the New Yorker and the NYT. His short fiction has in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Short Stories, and awarded a Pushcart Prize.