Shasta Grant

Fiction Writer

Indianapolis, IN
Indiana US
Email: 
shastagrant@gmail.com
Website: 
www.shastagrant.com
Twitter/X: 
@shastagrant

Author's Bio

Shasta Grant is the author of the chapbook Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home (Split Lip Press, 2017). She won the 2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest and the 2016 SmokeLong Quarterly Kathy Fish Fellowship. She has received residencies from Hedgebrook and The Kerouac Project and her work has appeared in cream city review, Epiphany, Hobart, wigleaf, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and divides her time between Singapore and Indianapolis.

Education: 
Sarah Lawrence College MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Tin House Summer Workshop
Literary agent: 
Saba Sulaiman of Talcott Notch

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
One for the Road (Split Oak Press, 2010)
Chapbook:
Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home (Split Lip Press, 2017)
Journals:
Boston Literary Magazine
,
Bridge Eight Literary Magazine
,
Corium Magazine
,
Hobart
,
Hypertrophic Literary
,
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
,
Lunch Ticket
,
Matchbook
,
Mikrokosmos
,
Monkeybicycle
,
Pithead Chapel
,
SmokeLong Quarterly
,
Split Lip Magazine
,
Stirring: A Literary Collection
,
WhiskeyPaper
,
Wigleaf
Prizes won: 

2016 SmokeLong Quarterly Kathy Fish Fellowship

2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest, judged by Ann Patchett.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Raised in: 
Newport, NH
New Hampshire
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Last update: Sep 08, 2020