Misha Rai is the 2018-2020 Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose. Her novel-in-progress, Blood We Did Not Spill, has been awarded a 2018 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Dana Award in the novel category, and the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies. She has also been a 2016-2017 Edward H. and Mary C. Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University and the recipient of the 2015 George M. Harper Award. Her prose has appeared in a number of journals. She was born in Sonipat, Haryana, and brought up in India.
2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
Jan/Feb 2021
Short Fiction Contest Introduction
Before the beginning of the pandemic that has upended all of us, I had a working theory about what makes good fiction. I presented it to my students at the […]
Fiction
Nov/Dec 2020
Twenty Years Ago
Let me at the start say that Nishi Singh is a healthy woman. She was healthier still, body and mind, at the time of the alleged murder and haunting some […]
Proof Casts a Shadow
We Don’t Need Your Little History
The year is 1996. The sun on a friend’s sixteenth birthday, a Sunday, is so bright for late afternoon that shadows from buildings, trees, salt tolerant wheat fields deepen exponentially. […]