RAKSHA VASUDEVAN / WRITER
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Honors

  • Canadian National Magazine award finalist for "Signs of Life" published in Hazlitt.
  • Notable mention in Best American Essays 2021 for ​"Room Service Economics: Seven Principles," published in Bat City Review.
  • Notable mention in Best American Essays 2020 for "Bone Memories," published in The Threepenny Review (print only)
  • Pushcart and Best of the Net nomination for "Steps to Becoming Fine: As Lived By My Mother," published by Hippocampus. 
  • Pushcart nomination for "Pro-Choice Stories: New World Economics," published in Jellyfish Review.

Press

  • Interview for Sea Change radio, a nationally syndicated radio program and podcast with over 80 broadcast affiliates, about my High Country News feature on green space, infrastructure and gentrification in Denver.
  • Featured in CBC's coverage of the 3 mentees selected by the Writers' Trust of Canada for its 2022 mentorship program. 
  • Interview for NPR/North Carolina Public Radio's "Embodied" podcast on estrangement and the immigrant experience in America. Rebroadcast by 36+ NPR affiliates around the country.
  • Interview for the SAHA podcast on the role of stories in humanitarian work. 
  • Interview for Carve Magazine on my essay "Patience and Me" (in print only)

Fellowships, Grants & Residencies

  • Resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2024)
  • Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center (2024)
  • Resident at Mountain Field Farm in Alaska, chosen by Pam Houston (2024)
  • ​​Resident at the Writer's Room at the Betsy Hotel (2023)
  • Resident at the Virginia Center for the Arts (2023)
  • Resident at Ragdale (2023)
  • The Word's Editor-Writer Mentorship Mentee in Memoir (2022)
  • Writers’ Trust of Canada Mentee in Nonfiction (2022)
  • Digital Original Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to create a new work for digital dissemination (2020)
  • Voices of Color Fellow at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (2019)
  • James Houston Memorial Scholar at The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (2019)
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