Hema Nataraju is an Indian-American writer and mom, currently based in Singapore. Her work has most recently appeared in Booth, Wigleaf, 100-word Story, Ruby Literary, and Nurture Literary, among others. One of her flash pieces is on the 2022 Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. She is a Submissions Editor at Smokelong Quarterly and she tweets as m_ixedbag.