Geeta Kothari is a senior editor of the Kenyon Review. Her essay "If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?" has been reprinted in several anthologies, including in Best American Essays. She is the editor of  ‘Did My Mama Like to Dance?’ and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters, and the author of I Brake for Moose and Other Stories. An excerpt from her memoir-in-progress appeared in Off Assignment last year. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.