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Shubha Sunder is the author of Boomtown Girl (Black Lawrence Press), a story collection set in her hometown of Bangalore, India, which won the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award and was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction. Her debut novel, Optional Practical Training, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. Prior to becoming a writer and a teacher of creative writing, she taught math and physics at the high school level.

At MassArt, Shubha teaches the Fiction Workshop in the Creative Writing Minor.

Industry Experience

Publications

Books

• Optional Practical Training (novel forthcoming from Graywolf Press)
• Boomtown Girl (Black Lawrence Press, winner of the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award)

Short Stories

• Boomtown Girl (Solstice, Spring 2022)
• A Very Full Day (The Common, Fall 2021)
• Dragon Girl (New Letters, Fall 2021)
• Independence Day (SLICE, Spring 2021)
• Final Exam (The Bare Life Review, Spring 2019)
• Jungleman (Crazyhorse, Fall 2015)
• The Footbridge (Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2015)
• Second Language (The Bangalore Review, 2015)
• The Western Tailor (Narrative Magazine, Winter 2013)
• Climb (The Drum, October 2010)

Essays

• Between Two Cities (LitHub, Spring 2023)
• Moving Past Silence as One Relationship Ends and Another Begins (Catapult, Spring 2021)
• We Had Time (The Latest: Online Writings at The Bare Life Review, Spring 2020)
• This is My Country? (Lenny Letter, Winter 2018)

Scientific

• Many-Body Interactions in Samples of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms of Varying Densities and Dimensionalities Thomas J. Carroll, Shubha Sunder and Dr. Michael Noel. (2006 issue of Physics Review A 73.032725.)
• Linear and Nonlinear Properties of Prestimulus Ventral Cord Signals Distinguish Swimming Response of the Leech to Intracellular Stimulation M. Albano, P. D. Brodfuehrer, L. Tapyrik and S. Sunder. (2006 issue of International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 16, No. 1.)

 

 

Awards

• Lawrence Book Award, 2022
• City of Boston Artist Fellowship, 2020
• Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, 2016–2017
• Jungleman and The Footbridge named “Notable Short Stories of 2016,” Best American Short Stories 2016
• The Footbridge listed in “Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2015,” Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016
• Jungleman won the 2015 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
• The Western Tailor won third place in the Narrative “30 Below” Contest 2012