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Elizabeth had reached out to me after reading one of my stories in The Common and we were in conversation about my collection, but I was not actually expecting Tin House to say yes. Talia Lakshmi Kolluri: I was at my day job doing something that is probably very boring by comparison when I got an email from Elizabeth DeMeo (now my editor at Tin House) telling me that they wanted to publish my collection, and the very next thing I did was text a screenshot to my husband because he was at work as well. Kim Huebner: Where were you when you found out What We Fed to the Manticore was going to be published? How did you celebrate?

Kolluri’s tales expose a world that is harsh but often beautiful and teach us something of the duties we have to that world and to each other.

Through their eyes and others, we see destruction caused by greed and conflict, struggles born of a changing climate, and the hope and connection that can exist despite these obstacles. The stories in Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut collection place us deep within the psyches of animals-a pigeon dragged from the sky by a kite string, a wolf who must hunt among hunters for her missing brother, a tiger who reckons with a manticore whose appetite seems without end. Today, we’re talking to Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, author of author of OS #291, “Let Your Body Meet the Ground” and What We Fed to the Manticore (Tin House).

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In the weeks leading up to the Ball, we’ll be introducing our Debs through a series of interviews. On April 27th at our Literary Debutante Ball, One Story will be celebrating nine of our authors who have recently published their debut books.