Sara Shukla is an editor of WBUR’s ideas and opinion page, Cognoscenti. Her debut novel, "Pink Whales," published in 2024, and you can find her writing in Cognoscenti, as well as in the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. An alum of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator and the University of Virginia, she lives in Rhode Island with her family.