Shastri Akella

Shastri Akella earned an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was a 2022 fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Works Center and a 2023 writing fellow at the Oak Springs Garden Foundation. His writing has been selected for the 2023 Best of Micro Fiction and he won the 2018 Bridging the Gap award for fiction at the Slice Writers' Conference. His fiction may be found at Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, The Master's Review, Popshot Quarterly, and World Literature Review, among other places.