RAKSHA VASUDEVAN / WRITER
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Fellowships & Grants

  • 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)

Other honors

  • 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

  • Featured in CBC's coverage of the 3 mentees selected by the Writers' Trust of Canada for its 2022 mentorship program. 
  • Interview for North Carolina Public Radio's "Embodied" podcast on how estrangement and the immigrant experience in America intersect
  • Interview for Carve Magazine on my essay "Patience and Me" (in print only)
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