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Mandira Pattnaik

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Mandira Pattnaik is the author of collections Anatomy of a Storm-Weathered Quaint Townspeople (2022, Poetry), Girls Who Don't Cry (2023, Flash Fiction) and Where We Set Our Easel (2023, Novella-in-Flash). Mandira's work has appeared/forthcoming in the McNeese Review, Penn Review, Quarterly West, Passages North, IHLR, Timber, Contrary, Watershed Review, SAND Journal, Quarter After Eight and Best Small Fictions Anthology (2021), among others. Her writing has secured multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and listing in Wigleaf Top50 (2023). More at mandirapattnaik.com

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