Meghana Mysore (she/her), from Portland, Oregon, is an Indian American writer. A 2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellow, her work appears in Pleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review, Apogee, Passages North, The Yale Review, The Rumpus, Indiana Review, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, wildness, Boston Review, The Margins of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and the anthology A World Out of Reach (Yale University Press).
A Tin House, Bread Loaf, and Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Scholar, she has also received recognition from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Black Lawrence Press, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, The de Groot Foundation, and The Carolyn Moore Writers’ Residency, and her flash piece, “In Lamplight You Are Made Whole,” was selected as a Wigleaf Top 50 story.
She holds a B.A. in English from Yale University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University. She is working on a novel exploring loss, longing, and joy in three generations of a South Indian American family, as well as a collection of surreal short stories around womanhood, memory, bodies, and ghosts.
