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Padma Viswanathan is a fiction writer, playwright and journalist from Edmonton, Alberta. Her writing awards include residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Banff Playwrights' Colony, and first place in the 2006 Boston Review Short Story Contest. She received her Creative Writing MA from Johns Hopkins and her MFA from the University of Arizona, and lives with her family in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Padma Viswanathan recommends
Tides (2022)
Sara Freeman
"Delicate, unconventional, contemporary--Tides is a novel held together by electricity, like a storm that just won't break."
Ghost Forest (2021)
Pik-Shuen Fung
"With a single line, you can paint the ocean,’ says an art teacher in Ghost Forest, as apt a description as any for Pik-Shuen Fung’s sparse, gorgeous, devastating debut novel. Here, silences speak. Brilliant and pitiless at first, Ghost Forest mutates in the reader’s hand, until it shimmers with grace and unexpected humor. A mercurial meditation on love and family."
Anthologies containing stories by Padma Viswanathan
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (2012)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers
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