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.
Take The Plunge
The Radical Way Author Xochitl Gonzalez Overcame Imposter Syndrome
The bestselling novelist talks with fellow author Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Books
A New Novel Asks: Are We All Complicit?
Author Katie Kitamura on how biases are bound up in language.
Rule Breakers
The Special Connection Between Kamala Harris’ Pearls & Her Indian Ethnicity
Why is her South Asian identity always mentioned as an afterthought?