Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a PEN American award finalist for WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES whose work has appeared in Salon, The Washington Post, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, The Millions, Joyland, Large Hearted Boy, Chattahoochee Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl, and elsewhere. Her work was selected for inclusion in Best Small Fictions and made a Book Club selection for The Wing and Rebel Women's Lit. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics, other myths and histories, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color.

Books

The Enduring Appeal Of Escaping Our Own Brains

Twelve years after 'A Visit from the Goon Squad,' author Jennifer Egan returns in sci-fi fashion.

By Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Take The Plunge

The Radical Way Author Xochitl Gonzalez Overcame Imposter Syndrome

The bestselling novelist talks with fellow author Chaya Bhuvaneswar

By Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Books

A New Novel Asks: Are We All Complicit?

Author Katie Kitamura on how biases are bound up in language.

By Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Rule Breakers

The Special Connection Between Kamala Harris’ Pearls & Her Indian Ethnicity

Why is her South Asian identity always mentioned as an afterthought?

By Chaya Bhuvaneswar