Manini Nayar
Manini Nayar’s stories and articles appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, London Magazine, Boston Review, Stand, Words and Images, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and other publications. She was awarded individual artist fellowships in fiction from the Pennsylvania and Indiana Arts Councils, and has won the BBC World Service Short Story Competition (co-winner), the Chelsea Award in Short Fiction, and Boston Review’s Aura Estrada Short Story Award. Her collection of short fiction was recently a finalist for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania, and teaches English and women’s studies at Penn State.
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Triptych, With Interruptions
1 Inside my house, the air is still. I have imagined a place for myself, a quiet room where no birds fly, where children’s voices are a memory, where the squatting inkwell is a point of steady reference in a present of lightweight ballpoint pens. If not quite of my own, my room is still […]
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Essay: Notes on Revisiting the ‘Immigrant’ in Immigrant Writing
Manini Nayar, writer of “Triptych, With Interruptions,” featured in the Fall 2019 edition of Shenandoah, shares her thoughts on the power of immigrant stories and her experience writing Being Here, in the essay below. Read “Triptych, With Interruptions” here. Notes on Revisiting the ‘Immigrant’ in Immigrant Writing In writing my collection of stories, […]