Fellows Reading: Eduardo Martinez-Leyva and Shastri Akella

Shastri Akella earned his MFA in Creative Writing and PhD. in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He previously worked for a street theater troupe and for Google. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica,The Master’s Review, Electric Literature, World Literature Today, Rumpus, PANK, and The Common, among other places. He’s currently finishing up his novel, a queer love story between a gender fluid street performer and a Jewish migrant set in 1990s India. He teaches English at Deerfield Academy and is the fiction editor at Cosmonaut’s Avenue.