About

Kanika Agrawal is a queer Indian writer and mad diasporic hybrid developed across six countries on four continents. As an (im)migrant and former scientist-in-training, she works between and across languages, geographies and disciplines.

She received a BS in Biology and a BS in Writing from MIT. She then earned an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver, teaching academic and creative writing at both institutions. She has also taught writing to incarcerated writers and at shelters for people experiencing homelessness, addiction and domestic violence.

Her work appears or is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Black Warrior Review, filling Station, FOLDER, Foglifter, Notre Dame Review, SAND, and various SF&F publications. She has been awarded residencies/fellowships by the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center.

She lives with her toy fox terrier in Denver, CO.