Sunil Yapa is the recipient of the 2010 Asian American Short Story Award, sponsored by Hyphen Magazine and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York. He is the recipient of the 2010 Asian American Short Story Award, sponsored by Hyphen Magazine and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York. Sunil Yapa’s debut novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist was published in 2016.