Gulf Coast,
Bennington Review, Hawaii Pacific Review and others. She is currently working on a collection of linked novellas and stories that follow the lives of women in Bangkok and explores the hold of reinvention in both public and personal history.
Reena Shah is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in
Waxwing Magazine, Joyland, BBC, The American Prospect, National Geographic, The Guardian, Third Coast, Writer’s Digest, Texas Review, Chalkbeat, and DNA India, among others. She has received support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Cuttyhunk Island Residency, and the Fulbright Foundation. She is also the winner of the 2019 Third Coast Fiction Prize and the 2019 Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Award. For many years she was a Kathak dancer and a member of the Parul Shah Dance Company. She currently dances in her socks on Friday and Saturday nights, teaches a fantastic group of third graders, and is at work on a novel-in-s