Indira Chandrasekhar started writing fiction with an increasing focus on the short story when she returned to India after more than 17 years abroad. She has a Ph.D. in Biophysics and prior to committing to fiction writing she studied the dynamics of biological membranes at research institutes in India, the United States and Switzerland. She is the founder editor of Out of Print, an online magazine for short fiction with connections to the subcontinent. Pangea , an anthology of stories she has co-edited will be published by Thames River Press in 2012.