About
Priyanka Champaneri's debut novel, THE CITY OF GOOD DEATH, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was named one of NPR's 2021 Books We Love. Her writing has appeared in Astra, Hindu Business Line, Lit Hub, and more. A graduate of George Mason University's MFA program, Priyanka has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France. She is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.
Find Priyanka on Instagram at @priyanka.champaneri and @priyanka.knits.
Other Work
- "Material World," an essay published in Astra
- "What Was the First Book You Fell in Love with? Priyanka Champaneri on Anne of Green Gables," an essay published in Lit Hub
- "Thread," an essay displayed at Page Bond Gallery (November 2021) in Richmond, Virginia and in the catalog for EMBLEM: Works by Sarah Boyts Yoder
- "The Story of a Debut Novel," an essay published in The Writers Center Magazine
- "Can Literature Teach Us How to Die? A Conversation between Ilan Stavans and Priyanka Champaneri," published in Los Angeles Review of Books
- "9 Books About Gossip," a reading list published in Electric Lit
- "Strange Gift," a short story published in The Hindu Business Line
- "Draupadi on the Mountaintop," an essay published in the COVID-19-inspired anthology And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again (Restless Books, August 2020)