Janhavi Acharekar is a freelance writer who has worked variously as journalist, advertising copywriter, wine-seller, art researcher and curator of literary festivals. She is the author of Window Seat: Rush hour stories from the city (HarperCollins India, 2009) - a collection of short stories - and Moon Mumbai & Goa (Avalon, 2009), the first Indian destination guide by American travel book series Moon Handbooks. Janhavi's writings feature in various short fiction and travel anthologies. Her story 'A Good Riot' was shortlisted for the Little Magazine New Writing Award in 2006. Her short stories appear in First Impressions (TLM, 2006), Stories at the Coffee Table (Caferati, 2007) and Indo-Australian anthology on terror Fear Factor: Terror Incognito (Picador India 2009; Pan Macmillan Australia 2010). She has contributed to Outlook Traveller's guidebook Driving Holidays Across India and is a contributing editor at Conde Nast Traveller India. Her features on travel, books and the arts have appeared in several Indian and international publications including The Hindu, The Times of India, Vancouver Sun, among others. Janhavi was declared one of nine Mumbaikars of the Year (2009) by Asian Age for Window Seat while Moon Mumbai & Goa was a finalist in the Travel Guide category at the American Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Awards 2009. She was the Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, Scotland, in the same year.   © Janhavi Stories 2009