Reena Shah is a writer, educator, and dancer. She was born and raised in Connecticut, but escaped frequently to Mumbai, India as a child. As an adult, she’s lived in India, New York, and now Costa Rica.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland Magazine, The Guardian, National Geographic, The American Prospect, Third Coast, Writer’s Digest, The Texas Review, Chalkbeat, and DNA India among others. She is the recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award for fiction in 2020 and was the winner of the 2019 Third Coast Fiction prize and the 2019 Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Award. She’s was a participant of the Tin House Summer Workshop in 2020 and received a Crossfields fellowship at the Cuttyhunk Island Residency in 2018. Her stories have been selected as finalists for Narrative Magazine’s Short Story Contest, Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the Calvino Prize, the New Millennium Short Story Award, and the New Letters Fiction Award.
