Jenny Bhatt is an Indian American writer, literary translator, and literary critic. She is the author of an award-winning story collection, Each of Us Killers, an award-shortlisted literary translation, Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, and the literary translation, The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories by Dhumketu. She is the founder of Desi Books, a global multimedia platform for South Asian literature, and a creative writing instructor at Writing Workshops Dallas. Personal life Bhatt was born in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, and grew up in Mumbai. She did most of her high school at Kimmins High School in Panchgani, Maharashtra. She attended the University of Hertfordshire in England as an engineering undergraduate. Thereafter, she worked in Germany, England, Scotland, and the United States at various multi-national corporations until 2012. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as a personal financial advisor to people running small businesses. In 2020, she founded Desi Books LLC, a global multimedia forum that showcases South Asian literature and connects readers and writers through conversation and community. She's based in the Dallas, Texas area. Writing (fiction and nonfiction) From 2016 onward, Bhatt's short fiction has been published in various literary journals. Her non-fiction and literary criticism have been published in various venues like NPR, The Washington Post, Literary Hub, The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, and others. In 2022 Bhatt guest-edited a collection of Gujarati literature in translation works at Words Without Borders. Bhatt's weekly newsletter, 'We Are All Translators' has received mentions at venues like Literary Hub and The Dallas Morning News. Each of Us Killers (short story collection) A winner in the Foreword INDIES 2020 Book of the Year Short Stories award category and a finalist in the Multicultural Adult Fiction category, Bhatt's debut short story collection was cited as one of the most anticipated debuts of the second half of 2020 by Electric Literature, Literary Hub, The Millions, and Entropy Magazine. Published by 7.13 Books, the story collection received a starred review from Shelf Awareness, with praise that “[c]hallenging assumptions, confronting power, manipulating barriers whenever possible–even at grave personal cost–Bhatt’s cast surprises, inspires, frightens, beguiles, but never disappoints.” Publishers Weekly wrote that Bhatt's "stories are memorable on their own, and they add up to a powerful expression of the hunger for success on one's own terms." Kirkus Reviews called it a "formally diverse collection with exquisitely crafted stories about longing, striving, and learning what we can