In 2024, Reema Rao was named winner of the Larry Brown Short Story Award from Pithead Chapel and awarded the inaugural Jennifer Weiner Fellowship by Blue Stoop. Her stories have been finalist for Best of the Net, longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her work has been nurtured in residency with Storyknife Writers Retreat and in workshop at Tin House, Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, and others. She lives with her husband, son, and dog in Chicago.
Selected work
- Fiction
12
- Nonfiction
1
Unidentifiable Cells
Pithead Chapel, 2025
Decision Tree
BULL lit mag, 2024
Infanticide
The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles, 2024
Somewhere Halfway
So to Speak, 2024
Color of Blood
Hayden's Ferry Review, 2023
Devi Maa
Witness, 2023
First Summer
The Lumiere Review, 2023
We Americans
Flash Frog, 2023
HER TWINN
Moot Point Magazine, 2023
Monkey Worshiper
Pigeon Review, 2022
Waiting For a Pink Line
The Avalon Literary Review, 2022
Getaway
Wayne Literary Review, 2022
Embracing My Hyphen: On Patels, Privilege, and the Names We Hide Behind
The Lipstick Politico, 2021