Aarti Monteiro is a fiction writer and educator. She was born in south India and has lived in many cities, including Bombay, Muscat, Brooklyn, and Evanston. 

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Aarti holds a BA in English Literature from Grinnell College and an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers University-Newark. She has participated in a number of writing residencies and workshops, including the Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A Kundiman Fellow, her work has been published in Epiphany Magazine, wildness, the Chicago Quarterly Review, and Joyland, among others.

Her linked short story collection explores how the trauma of migration is passed down over generations. Spanning the second half of the twentieth century and moving into the twenty-first, the book investigates the effect of a double migration, the loss of home, and the stigma of mental illness on a multi-generational family. She lives in Chicago.

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Pronouns: she/her

Pronounced: ar-thi