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The George Garrett Fiction Prize: Judge’s Choice, selected by Kaveh Akbar
A magic skin cream, a fortune-telling parrot, a chance meeting with a guru godwoman, a dinner in shadows, a giant talking moon bird, milk-drinking Ganesh idols, even objects in a house after a divorce—when strange, perhaps supernatural, occurrences interrupt people's lives, what price will each pay for choosing to believe in them?
About
ABOUT
Kavi Yaga's travel memoir, Walking in Clouds: A Journey to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar (HarperCollins India, 2018), was nominated for the inaugural AutHer Awards. Her upcoming collection of short fiction, The Vanishings: Eight Stories, was recognised by Kaveh Akbar as the Judge's Choice of the George Garrett Fiction Prize, 2024 and will be published by the Texas Review Press in April 2026. .
A runner-up for the 2021 Calvino Prize for Speculative Fiction, she was a 2023 Yaddo Fellow and attended the 2022 Summer Session at Iowa Writers’ Workshop (Graduate Fiction Workshop).
Her work has appeared in One Story, Swamp Pink, The Hindu, Outlook Traveller magazine, The Book Review, River Teeth, The Bombay Review, and elsewhere. She is co-editor of Work, Wisdom, Legacy: 31 Essays from India (OrientBlackswan, 2025), edited by Dr. Y. V. Reddy and others.
Kavi Yaga lives in Hyderabad, India, with her husband, Hari, and their excitable Golden Retriever, Neo.
In previous avatars, she worked as a software engineer in Chicago and as a development economics researcher in South India.
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