Keya Mitra is currently an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Pacific University and graduated in 2010 with a doctorate from the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, where she also earned her MFA. In 2008, she spent a year in India on a Fulbright grant in creative writing. Her fiction is forthcoming in Southwest Review, Arts and Letters, Slush Pile, Best New American Voices, Ontario Review, Orchid, Event, Fourteen Hills, Torpedo, and Confrontation. She has completed a novel (under representation), short-story collection, and book-length memoir.
Fiction
Sept/Oct 2015
The Sacred Gifts of Cows and Cheetahs
1 In the space of one week I become a we. I make love to my Austinite atop a graveyard of barbecue ribs after a family gathering at his ranch […]
Fiction
Fall 2011
A Family Matter
It’s seven in the morning on a Thursday, and I’m already late for school when I walk into the dining room for breakfast and find Debi, my newborn sister, floating […]
Keya Mitra
Keya Mitra is currently an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Pacific University and graduated in 2010 with a doctorate from the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, […]
