Meghana Mysore, from Portland, Oregon, is an Indian American writer and a daughter of immigrants. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the anthology A World Out of Reach (Yale University Press).
The winner of the 2025 Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction, a 2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellow, and a Tin House and Bread Loaf Scholar, her work has also received recognition from Black Lawrence Press, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and The de Groot Foundation.
She holds a B.A. in English from Yale and an M.F.A. from Hollins University. Her short story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart, is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press. She is working on a novel about womanhood, memory, bodies, and ghosts.
