Bio

Meghana Mysore is the author of the short story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart (West Virginia University Press). Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, among other publications. She is the winner of the 2025 Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction, selected by Marian Crotty. 

A 2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellow, and a Tin House and Bread Loaf Scholar, Meghana has also received recognition from The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The de Groot Foundation, and the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions. She holds a B.A. in English from Yale and an M.F.A. from Hollins University, and currently teaches as visiting faculty at Bucknell University. She has previously taught writing at Amherst College, The Seven Hills School, and Hollins.

From Portland, Oregon, Meghana is a daughter of Indian immigrants and a lover of non-sequiturs and used bookstores. She is working on a novel about female friendship, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves.