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. 

​

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.

She is currently working on a linked short story collection that 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.

​

Pronouns: she/her

Pronounced: ar-thi