Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton introduce Shastri Akella
Shastri Akella’s debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published by Flatiron Books in the USA and Canada and by Penguin in India. He was a writing resident at the Fine Arts Works Center and the Oak Springs Garden Foundation. He is the winner of the 2022 FracturedLit Flash Fiction Contest and the 2023 Best Microfiction Contest. His writing has appeared in Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, CRAFT, The Masters Review, Electric Literature, World Literature Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Most recently, his story The Magic Bangle was included in The Best American Short Stories 2024, which was edited by Lauren Groff. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing and PhD. in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan State University.
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