Rishi reddi biography

Rishi Reddi was born in Hyderabad, India.
Rishi was born in Hyderabad, India, and lived in Great Britain and several regions of the United States before attending Swarthmore College and Northeastern.
Rishi Reddi was born in Hyderabad, India, grew up in the United Kingdom and the United States, and is a long-time resident of Massachusetts.

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Rishi Reddi

About

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Rishi Reddi is the author of two books of fiction, Karma and Other Stories, and Passage West.

Karma and Other Stories was the winner of the 2008 PEN New England / L.L. Winship prize for fiction. Stories from that collection were published in Best American Short Stories, broadcast on National Public Radio, performed at New York City’s Symphony Space, received honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize, and chosen for the Boston Book Festival’s “One City, One Story” community read.

Rishi’s debut novel, Passage West, is a L.A. Times “Best California Book of 2020” and was a finalist for the New England Independent Booksellers Association’s New England Book Award in fiction. It was recommended by The Bustle, Book Riot, Ms. Magazine, Teen Vogue, and The Millions. A sweeping saga set in rural California at the onset of World War I, it relates the story of a Punjabi family, their Mexican in-laws, and their Japanese neighbors during an era of tightening immigration laws.

Rishi was born in Hyderabad, India, and lived in Great

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Rishi Reddi

American author

Rishi Reddi is an American author. She is a L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award laureate.

Biography

Rishi Reddi was born in Hyderabad, India. She grew up in the United Kingdom and the United States.

She is a graduate of Swarthmore College, where she studied English, and the Northeastern University School of Law. In 2001, she earned a master's degree in creative writing from Boston University. Alongside her writing career, she has been an enforcement attorney for the state and federal environmental protection agencies, as well as a lawyer for the Massachusetts Secretary of Environment.

She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Awards and honors

Her book Karma and Other Stories received the 2008 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award.^[1] Rishi Reddi's work was chosen for Best American Short Stories 2005,^[2] featured on National Public Radio's "Selected Shorts" program, and received an honorable mention for 2004 Pushcart Prize. She has been a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the MacDowell Colo

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Reddi, Rishi

PERSONAL:

Born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India; immigrated to the United States, naturalized citizen; married; children: a daughter. Education:Swarthmore College, graduated, 1988; Northeastern University School of Law, J.D., 1992.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Brookline, MA. Agent—Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, 80 5th Ave., Ste. 1101, New York, NY 10011.

CAREER:

Writer and lawyer. Has worked as an enforcement attorney for state and federal environmental protection agencies, and as a lawyer for the Massachusetts Secretary of Environment. Also serves on the board of directors of South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Pushcart Prize honorable mention, 2004; fellow, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2007; Individual Artist's Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council.

WRITINGS:

Karma and Other Stories, Ecco (New York, NY), 2007.

Short story appeared in Best American Short Stories 2005; contributor of short stories to periodicals, including the Harvard Review, Louisville Review and Prairie Schooner. English translations of Telugu short fiction has