Majella Pinto, is a California based Indian-American writer. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, LA. Her fiction stories are culturally centered around her experience growing up in South India and the immigrant experience in America. Her work has appeared in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Claudine, Lunch Ticket, eMerge magazine, 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42², 81 words, Dairy Hollow Echo and elsewhere. She has served in editorial roles for Lunch Ticket, Kaale Khobar and The Palette and is currently on the staff of Chestnut Review. Majella believes that more conversations across a table with food cooked with love are needed to nurture communities and break down bridges. She lives in Northern California with her husband and is currently working on her debut novel.