Meghana Mysore, from Portland, OR, is an Indian American writer whose poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, The Rumpus, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Michigan Quarterly Review, the anthology A World Out of Reach (Yale University Press), the 2024 Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions, and more.
The winner of the 2025 Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction, a 2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellow, and a Tin House and Bread Loaf Scholar, her work has also received recognition from Black Lawrence Press, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The de Groot Foundation, Writing by Writers, Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and more.
She holds a B.A. in English from Yale and an M.F.A. from Hollins University. Her short story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart, is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press. She is working on a novel about womanhood, memory, bodies, and ghosts.
