Chandra Prasad is the author of several critically acclaimed novels. Her two most recent works include Mercury Boys, a Connecticut Book Award finalist, and Damselfly, a bold survival tale published by Scholastic. Damselfly is used widely in English and literature classes as both a stand-alone text and as a modern parallel text with Lord of the Flies. Booklist calls Damselfly “a compulsive read” and School Library Journal hails it a “compelling modern-day adventure.”

Prasad’s general fiction titles include On Borrowed Wings, another Connecticut Book Award finalist; Death of a Circus, which Booklist calls “richly textured and packed with glamour and grit;” and Breathe the Sky, a fictionalized account of Amelia Earhart’s last days. Prasad is the originator, editor, and a contributor to the W.W. Norton anthology Mixed, the first-ever collection of short stories on the multiracial experience. Her shorter works have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Week, Teen Voices, School Library Journal, and in national and international literary, arts, and poetry journals. Prasad, a Morse fellow at Yale University, is a frequent guest speaker on podcasts and at high schools, universities, and literary conferences. She is also a contributor to New Haven Noir, an anthology edited by Amy Bloom. Her upcoming novel, Eve’s Needle, is a psychological thriller that explores the intersection between artificial intelligence and environmental justice.