Pritha Bhattacharyya is a fiction writer who received her PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston and her MFA from Boston University. Her work appears in The Southern Review and Ecotone and has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Key West Literary Seminar, Willapa Bay AiR, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Inprint, the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and elsewhere. Bhattacharyya is a 2024–25 postdoctoral fellow and Inprint Writer-in-Residence at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics in Houston.
Fiction
Summer 2025
The Trouble with Brown People
After ten minutes of our sitting in their living room, eating samosas and drinking chai, Sunil-da starts lecturing us about the trouble with brown people. Sunil Sengupta works for Merck […]