Preeta Samarasan was born in Malaysia and moved to the United States during high school.
She lives with her family in the Limousin region of France..
Her work has been published in A Public Space, Guernica, Copper Nickel, AGNI , and other journals.
Henry Prize Collection.
Her short fiction has won the Asian American Writers\' Workshop Short Story Competition and been selected for a PEN/O.
Her first novel, Evening Is the Whole Day , was longlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the 2008 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.
Preeta Samarasan was born in Malaysia and moved to the United States during high school