Writer, editor, and teacher, Beena Kamlani, has published fiction in Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, The Lifted Brow, World Literature Today, Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American, Growing Up Ethnic in America, Epiphany Magazine, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and other anthologies.
Her short story “Black Lace,” written at Yaddo in 2021, was published in Epiphany’s Empire-themed issue in summer 2021. Her short story “Zanzibar” won a Pushcart prize for fiction and one of her novels-in-progress won the Yeovil Fiction Award.
While at MacDowell, she worked on revisions to her novel Exile, to be published in 2023.
