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Shastri Akella

Shastri Akella
Shastri Akella holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His writing has appeared in Guernica, The Master's Review, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, PANK, The Common, and World Literature Review, among others. The Sea Elephants is his debut novel.


How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

On Queerness in the Mahabharata and Hiking the Himalayas for Inspiration
July 31, 2023  By Shastri Akella
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