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Kanak Kapur

Kanak Kapur currently teaches at Colgate University, where she is an Olive B. O’Connor fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in the Sewanee Review and The Rumpus, among other publications.

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“Prophecy”
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Début fiction by Kanak Kapur: First, they would consult the family astrologer, he said, and only if the man approved of the match would Dev be allowed to go through with the proposal.