Meghana Mysore , from Portland, Oregon, is an Indian American writer and MFA candidate at Hollins University, where she works as a teaching fellow and graduate assistant. She is the second place prose winner in the 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Annual Contest, the runner-up for the Melanie Hook Rice Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the recipient of fellowships and support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Tin House Winter Workshop. Meghana’s work has been published in the Yale Review, Boston Review, the Rumpus, Indiana Review, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, and other journals, and anthologized in A World Out of Reach (Yale University Press).