Parul Kapur is the author of Inside the Mirror (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the New American Voices Award. She was named 2025 Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel. Her award-winning short fiction, which centers on the lives of Indian immigrants, has been published in Ploughshares, Pleiades, Wascana Review, Prime Number, Midway Journal, and the anthology {Ex}tinguished & {Ex}tinct. The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and Hambidge Center have supported her with writing fellowships

As a journalist and critic, she has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, ARTnews, Art in America, Guernica, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review. Parul spent a decade in Germany, France, and England, contributing articles and reviews to The Wall Street Journal Europe and Newsday. She has worked as a press officer at the United Nations in New York and a reporter in Mumbai. She holds an MFA from Columbia University. Born in Assam, India and raised in Connecticut, she lives in Atlanta.