Dini Parayitam is an Indian-American writer based in Iowa City. She holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (2014). Her short stories have been published in Joyland Magazine, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, etc. While working on her debut novel, she wrote/produced short films “All Your Yesterdays” and “How Do You Like Your Eggs”, both were selected at Oscar-qualifying film festivals. She was also named on the inaugural The Salon x The Blacklist’s Desi List for the feature Mouna Tharangam (A Silent Wave), co-written with Jerika Marchan, to be directed by Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda. With the same team, she has also co-written the feature screenplay Mano Prapancham (The World Within). Her feature screenplays have been awarded AFS Grants, SFFILM Rainin Grant, selected for Sundance Second-Round, and competed as Top 10 finalists in AT&T Tribeca’s Untold Stories.