About
Priyanka Champaneri's debut novel, THE CITY OF GOOD DEATH, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was named one of NPR's 2021 Books We Love. Her writing has appeared in Astra, Hindu Business Line, Lit Hub, and more. A graduate of George Mason University's MFA program, Priyanka has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France. She is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.
Other Work
Short Stories
- "Good Neighbor," Split Lip Magazine
- "Strange Gift," The Hindu Business Line
Essays
- "Material World," Astra
- "What Was the First Book You Fell in Love with? Priyanka Champaneri on Anne of Green Gables," Lit Hub
- "Thread," 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," The Writers Center Magazine
- "Can Literature Teach Us How to Die? A Conversation between Ilan Stavans and Priyanka Champaneri," first published in Los Angeles Review of Books
and anthologized in Translation as Home: A Multilingual Life - "9 Books About Gossip," Electric Lit
- "Draupadi on the Mountaintop," anthologized in And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again (Restless Books, August 2020)
Book Reviews in Washington Independent Review of Books
- Tall Is Her Body, Robert de la Chevotiere
- Beasts, Ingvild Bjerkeland
- The Translator's Daughter, Grace Loh Prasad