About
Priyanka Champaneri's debut novel, THE CITY OF GOOD DEATH, won the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, was a finalist for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was named one of NPR's 2021 Books We Love. She received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. In 2024 she received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. You can find Priyanka on Instagram as @priyanka.champaneri.
In addition to being a writer, Priyanka is also an avid and experienced knitter. View her projects on Ravelry, or follow her knitting account on Instagram, @priyanka.knits.
And if you're also a knitter, check out Menaka Shawl, a pattern designed by Nidhi Kansal that was directly inspired by The City of Good Death.
Other Work
- "Material World," an essay published in Astra
- "What Was the First Book You Fell in Love with? Priyanka Champaneri on Anne of Green Gables," an essay published in Lit Hub
- "Thread," an essay displayed at Page Bond Gallery (November 2021) in Richmond, Virginia and in the catalog for EMBLEM: Works by Sarah Boyts Yoder
- "The Story of a Debut Novel," an essay published in The Writers Center Magazine
- "Can Literature Teach Us How to Die? A Conversation between Ilan Stavans and Priyanka Champaneri," published in Los Angeles Review of Books
- "9 Books About Gossip," a reading list published in Electric Lit
- "Strange Gift," a short story published in The Hindu Business Line
- "Draupadi on the Mountaintop," an essay published in the COVID-19-inspired anthology And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again (Restless Books, August 2020)