Meghana Mysore is the author of the short story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart (West Virginia University Press), available for pre-order now. The audiobook is forthcoming from Blackstone.

Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and 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, Meghana has also received recognition from McCormack Writing Center, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The de Groot Foundation, and the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions. She has previously taught writing at Amherst College and Bucknell University, and is an Assistant Professor of English and creative writing at Randolph College.

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.