Manini Samarth

Professional Bio

Manini Samarth taught classes in British and Asian literature, rhetoric and writing, and women’s studies. Her scholarly articles and stories have been published in periodicals including Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Études Anglaises, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Shenandoah, Chelsea, The Malahat Review, Boston Review, Words and Images, The London Magazine, and Stand, and in the anthologies Signals (Ed. Alan Ross, Constable Press, UK) and The O’Henry Festival Stories (Greensboro, NC). Her short stories won the Chelsea Award in Short Fiction, the Boston Review Short Story Award (now the Aura Estrada Short Story Award), the BBC World Service International Short Story Award, the Andre Dubus Short Story Award, and Stand Magazine's (U.K.) International Short Story Award. She has been awarded Literature Fellowships from the Indiana Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her stories have been featured by InterAct Theatre Company, Philadelphia, in their Writing Aloud performance series and broadcast internationally on the BBC literary program Off the Shelf. Her short fiction collection, Being Here, was selected for the University of Kentucky's New Poetry and Prose Series and published in 2022.