Keya Mitra

2025 Pushcart Prize Winner. Professor of CW. Winner: 2024 Missouri Review Perkoff Prize (Nonfic), 2024 Prairie Schooner Nonfiction Contest

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

@cdivakaruni @UHouston @UHpres @uhcwp Congratulations—and you are one of the amazing professors there who have changed my life and countless others!!❤️❤️❤️

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

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[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

So honored to share that my essay “Almost Born” has won a Pushcart Prize! Thank you to The Missouri Review for championing it and awarding it the 2024 Perkoff Prize. It explores the silence around serial pregnancy loss and the communal joy of hiking the Camino Santiago.

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

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[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

My essay "Almost Born"—winner of the 2024 Missouri Review Perkoff Prize—is now in print!
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best American Essays, it explores the isolation of serial miscarriages & chronic illness alongside the communal joy of the Camino Santiago pilgrimage.

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

Deep gratitude to @Missouri_Review & for their support. Also honored my essay "Never Let Go" was a finalist for the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Choice Award.
Check out the winter issue! 🔗 https://t.co/T6WKTH0zpU

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

#LiteraryCommunity #CreativeNonfiction

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

Humbled and so grateful: The Missouri Review nominated my essay 'Almost Born' for a #PushcartPrize!

The essay will appear in TMR’s winter issue & won the 2024 #PerkoffPrize in Nonfiction.

Thank you to @Missouri_Review for the incredible honor! Congrats to all nominees! 🎉

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

Also, huge thanks to @Angelique23456 @ChaeJunghae @meeravijayann @JoyLanzendorfer and others for being kind enough to exchange work with me and inspire me with their brilliance 💗

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

So honored to win Prairie Schooner's Summer Nonfiction Contest! Grateful to judge @SafiyaSinclair (How To Say Babylon) for her kind words: “This essay is a beautiful, brilliantly moving work...I came away wanting to stay with this writer…to walk the rest of the way with her.”

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Read more: [https://t.co/WVAVRV1cUJ]

#PrairieSchooner #CreativeNonfiction #WritingCommunity #SafiyaSinclair #HowToSayBabylon

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

So honored to have my short-story collection, Bad Babies, named as one of ten finalists for the 2024 AWP Award Series: The Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. Huge congrats to all my fellow finalists, and many thanks to @awpwriter for the wonderful opportunity.

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

So delighted and honored to be one of ten finalists for the AWP 2024 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.

[AWP @awpwriter]

Congratulations to the forty finalists of the AWP Award Series! You can find the full list on our website. One winner in each genre will receive a cash prize and publication. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners in September! https://t.co/GNFD3PzvbV

[Marcela Fuentes @Marcelisima1]

Thank you @PENamerica for this fantastic interview! @VikingBooks @GMA

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

@ChaeJunghae Thank you so much, beautiful friend! And thank you for your feedback. I am so grateful for your brilliance and kindness 💕💗

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

So deeply honored to have won The Missouri Review’s 2024 Perkoff Prize in Nonfiction for my essay “Almost Born,” which will be published in the Winter 2024 issue. In the essay I explore the silence surrounding serial miscarriages alongside the communal joy of the Camino Santiago.

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

So thrilled for brilliant, beautiful fellow Sewanee scholar Marcela Fuentes, whose brilliant novel Malas came out yesterday. It is June’s Good Morning American pick and has received so many starred reviews from Kirkus and elsewhere. Buy it today if you have not already 💕

[Jung Hae Chae 채 정혜 @ChaeJunghae]

This is the best Mother's Day gift ever!! Thank you @SustainableArts for recognizing the work we do as parent writers and artists!! Congratulations to the other winners and finalists!!! 🥰🙏

[Keya Mitra @KeyaWrites]

So lucky to be presenting at AWP with my dear friend Jung Hae Chae @ChaeJunghae and the brilliant Joy Lanzendorfer (the organizer!), Meera Vijayann, and Frances Badalamenti! Hope to see some of you there. #awp2023 #AWP23

[Joy Lanzendorfer @JoyLanzendorfer]

Who else is going to #awp2023? I’m moderating a panel on writing our family stories with the fabulous @ChaeJunghae, @meeravijayann, @KeyaWrites and Frances Badalamenti. Details:

https://t.co/L2hpAv0OoC