SHASTRI AKELLA’s debut novel is The Sea Elephants (Flatiron Books USA, Penguin India 2023). Their fiction was anthologized in Best American Short Fiction in 2024. Recently, they were recipients of fiction prizes from Black Warrior Review, CRAFT, and Bellevue Literary Review, as well fiction fellowships from the Fine Arts Works Center. Their stories are available online in Guernica, Fairy Tale Review, and The Masters Review.

read shastri’s story, ‘what trevor saw’, here

read our ten questions with shastri here