Nandini Bhattacharya

Nandini Bhattacharya’s first novel Love’s Garden was published in 2020. Shorter work has been published in Notre Dame Review, PANK, Oyster River Pages, The Bombay Review, Sky Island Journal, the Saturday Evening Post, The Bangalore Review, Meat for Tea, and more. She has attended the Bread Loaf Writers Workshop and been accepted for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Disquiet: Dzanc Books International Literary Program, Ragdale Artists Residency, and VONA. Her awards and honors include a Pushcart nomination for her short story “After the House Burned Down” (2021); first runner-up for the Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction contest (2017-2018); and long-listed for the Disquiet International Literary Prize (2019 and 2020). She has completed a second novel titled Something of Me in You, about love, race, caste, and colorism in India and the US seen through a female immigrant’s perspective. She also edits and reads for Colorado Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Cutbank Literary Journal. She is Professor of English at Texas A&M University and a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.