Optional Practical Training

Name: Optional Practical Training
ISBN: 9781644453254

by Shubha Sunder

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Whiting FoundationApril 1, 2025Literary FictionISBN 9781644453254

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Shubha Sunder is recognized for her debut fiction exploring South Asian diasporic experience and the intersection of tradition and contemporary life. This record is a writer-level placeholder for her Whiting Award.

About the Author

Shubha SunderIndian

Shubha Sunder is an Indian writer born and raised in Bangalore who moved to the US for college at Bryn Mawr (physics major, creative writing minor) and earned an MFA from Boston University. Her debut short story collection Boomtown Girl (2021) won the St. Lawrence Book Award, and her novel Optional Practical Training (2025, Graywolf Press) won the New American Voices Award and a Whiting Award. Read more →