Vyshali Manivannan received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University and is currently pursuing a Communications Ph.D. at Rutgers University. She taught composition and rhetoric for five years at institutions in and around New York and has presented and published scholarship on comics and animation and the culture of the imageboard 4chan. Her first novel Invictus was published in 2004, and her creative work has also been featured in the Asian-American Comics Convention and Yoni Ki Baat 2010.