Anjali Sachdeva is an author and teacher. Currently, she teaches teaches fiction, nonfiction, and Introduction to Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh.Sachdeva has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Augustana College, and the University of Iowa. She has also worked at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, where she was Director of Educational Programs. Sachdeva's work, both nonfiction and fiction, with an emphasis on speculative fiction, has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Lightspeed, Tor.com, and Vogue India, and on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. Her first book, the collection, "All the Names They Used for God," was published in 2018 and won the 2019 Chautauqua Prize and the 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, and was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR.Sachdeva worked for six years at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, where she was Director of Educational Programs. She is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Investing in Professional Artists grant from the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation. She currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, and in the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College.She has hiked through the backcountry of Canada, Iceland, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States, and spent much of her childhood reading fantasy novels and waiting to be whisked away to an alternate universe. Instead, she lives in Pittsburgh, which is pretty wonderful as far as plac