Saritha Ramakrishnais a writer, researcher, and urban planner based in Brooklyn, NY, originally from Phoenix, Arizona. Criticism, reporting and fiction of hers has appeared in The New Republic, The Baffler, Orion Magazine, Literary Hub, Urban Omnibus, and The New Orleans Review. As a writer, she considers our 21st-century economy, the obligations between people and their institutions, and the interplay of landscape and ideology.