An alumna of the International Writing Program-2011, Iowa University and the International Writing Workshop-2012, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. Ajit Baral is a writer and editor and pubisher He has has published two books: The Lazy Conman and Other stories (Penguin, India), Interviews Across Time and Space (FinePrint, Nepal). He is the co-author of By the Way: Travels through Nepal’s conflict and Shaili Pustak (Sunlight Publication, Nepal), a Nepali style guide. He is a co-editor of an anthology of Nepali short stories in English, New Nepal, New Voices (Rupa, India) and the editor of a collection of memoirs in Nepali called First Love. His first novel, How not to Fall in Love, which is a meditation on Love, is coming out in 2013.

He has contributed articles, book reviews and short pieces to national and international magazine and his writings have appeared in journals and book forms. He used to coordinate the literary supplement of Nagarik, Akshyar, the first stand-alone literary supplement in Nepal. He is a co-founder and managing editor of a Kathmandu-based publishing house, FinePrint and the festival director of Nepal’s first ever international literature festival, Nepal Literature Festival.