Keya Mitra

Keya Mitra is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at Pacific University and received the 2018 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She earned an MFA and PhD from the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program and a Fulbright creative-writing research grant to India. Her fiction received notable mention in Best American Short Stories 2018, was a finalist for the 2021 Indiana Review Prize, and has appeared in The Kenyon Review (2011 and 2015), The Bellevue Literary Review, The Southwest Review, Best New American Voices, The Bennington Review, and many other publications. Her essays appear in Witness Magazine (2021), and were runner-up for the 2021 Witness Magazine Literary Awards and finalists for the 2021 Iowa Review and Disquiet Literary Prizes. Keya has written two novels, a short-story collection, and book-length memoir.