About me

Kritika Pandey is the global winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and was on the shortlist in 2018 and 2016. A graduate of the MFA for Poets and Writers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she was a resident writer at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico in 2021. Her writing has been generously supported by a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her works have appeared in Granta, Kenyon Review, BBC Radio 4, The Common, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Raleigh Review, and UCity Review, among others, and have been translated into Malayalam, Italian, Bengali, Marathi, and Pashto. In 2014, she won a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing at The University of Edinburgh's Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, the same year she became a Young India Fellow at Ashoka University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from BIT, Mesra, and grew up in Jharkhand, India. Kritika also conducts short story workshops at the Himalayan Writing Retreat where she has mentored over 70 students so far. Register for her upcoming workshop (Nov 18-26) here: https://www.himalayanwritingretreat.com/event/short-story-writing-workshop-with-kritika-pandey/