"So wildly imaginative, and yet so open to all that is small, bright and counter. Deeply felt and often joyful, in its way. A beautiful, beautiful book."

- Rivka Galchen, Author of American Innovations

"What a marvelous möbius band of a book. Too beautiful for blurbs. It's one of those books you'll read for the rest of your life."

- Paul Beatty, Booker Prize-Winning Author of The Sellout

Gauraa Shekhar was a graduate of Columbia University's MFA Writing Program and a founding editor of No Contact. She published work in Nimrod, Sonora Review, Literary Hub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, among many other places. She passed away in Richmond, Virginia in 2022. Notes is her first book.