Misha Rai
@misharai.bsky.social
Writer| Dana Award & Dogwood Prize| Fellow-Kenyon Review, MacDowell, Ucross, Woodrow Wilson, VCCA| Scholar-Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference| Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing, Sewanee| Contributing Editor-Kenyon Review
Sewanee: The University of the South is looking to employ a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Poetry. Deadline: Nov 3.
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Assistant Professor, Poetry (Tenure-Track) - Sewanee, Tennessee job with The University of the South | 37886424
The English and Creative Writing Department has recently initiated a major in Creative Writing (in addition to a Creative Writing Certificate). Poetr
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September 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Sewanee: The University of the South is looking to employ a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Poetry. Deadline: Nov 3.
If you see this post please share the link posted below widely.
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37886424...
If you see this post please share the link posted below widely.
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37886424...
the bear the bear the bear the bear
June 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
the bear the bear the bear the bear
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So honored to be interviewed by Third Coast! We discussed many lovely topics, including but not limited to violence and defecation
Check out Zoe Presnal's interview with A.A. Balaskovits, author of contemporary fairy tales! @aabalaskovits.bsky.social
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June 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So honored to be interviewed by Third Coast! We discussed many lovely topics, including but not limited to violence and defecation
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Deeply honored to have my latest flash, about a selkie and her skin, in the Cincinnati Review miCRo: www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...
miCRo: "A Village Tries On Her Skin," by A. A. Balaskovits
In this Shirley Jackson-like fable, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Deeply honored to have my latest flash, about a selkie and her skin, in the Cincinnati Review miCRo: www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...
Huge congratulations to @blackquisition.bsky.social for selling bet debut novel, Stable! I can’t wait to read this book and celebrate it!!! @henryholtbooks.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Huge congratulations to @blackquisition.bsky.social for selling bet debut novel, Stable! I can’t wait to read this book and celebrate it!!! @henryholtbooks.bsky.social
I have read, twice, Kevin Wilson’s Run for the Hills. Kevin does a thing, that I think is synonymous with brilliant writing, he makes a character think or say a thing that is true for the character, the story they are in, & also for the world at large. In so doing he makes the reader see themselves.
May 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I have read, twice, Kevin Wilson’s Run for the Hills. Kevin does a thing, that I think is synonymous with brilliant writing, he makes a character think or say a thing that is true for the character, the story they are in, & also for the world at large. In so doing he makes the reader see themselves.
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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Granta mourns Mario Vargas Llosa. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on all of his writing for the magazine, from his fiction to his account of running for the presidency of Peru.
April 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Granta mourns Mario Vargas Llosa. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on all of his writing for the magazine, from his fiction to his account of running for the presidency of Peru.
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SITA IN EXILE has been reviewed by Scroll.IN! You can read the review here: scroll.in/article/1080...
April 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
SITA IN EXILE has been reviewed by Scroll.IN! You can read the review here: scroll.in/article/1080...
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We're in Los Angeles this week- Thurs-Sat! Visit us at #AWP25 bookfair – T249 🤩
Stop by on Saturday for a book signing featuring FICTIONS author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social at 10:30AM
Stop by on Saturday for a book signing featuring FICTIONS author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social at 10:30AM
March 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We're in Los Angeles this week- Thurs-Sat! Visit us at #AWP25 bookfair – T249 🤩
Stop by on Saturday for a book signing featuring FICTIONS author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social at 10:30AM
Stop by on Saturday for a book signing featuring FICTIONS author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social at 10:30AM
I’m going to be zooming in for this, but I’m so glad to be part of this community at 100 West Corsicana, and I can’t wait to be there soon to do work that feels urgent to me.
March 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’m going to be zooming in for this, but I’m so glad to be part of this community at 100 West Corsicana, and I can’t wait to be there soon to do work that feels urgent to me.
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Today, I have a short non-fic piece about a monument I walk past every day in The Palisades Review. Free Gaza. Free all of us.
Of the moment — The Palisades Review
OF THE MOMENT
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March 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today, I have a short non-fic piece about a monument I walk past every day in The Palisades Review. Free Gaza. Free all of us.
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While you're making your AWP plans, don't forget about this one! The featured readers are going to bring down the house. We're excited to co-host w/ @adroitjournal.bsky.social & @pleiadesmag.bsky.social. See you soon!
March 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
While you're making your AWP plans, don't forget about this one! The featured readers are going to bring down the house. We're excited to co-host w/ @adroitjournal.bsky.social & @pleiadesmag.bsky.social. See you soon!
I don’t enjoy listening to my own voice or even watching myself, I am grateful to lend my voice to an organization that’s changed my life, as it has done for countless others. @kenyonreview.bsky.social
supports the making of art in its rawest, most honest form. And to do that is radical.
supports the making of art in its rawest, most honest form. And to do that is radical.
February 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don’t enjoy listening to my own voice or even watching myself, I am grateful to lend my voice to an organization that’s changed my life, as it has done for countless others. @kenyonreview.bsky.social
supports the making of art in its rawest, most honest form. And to do that is radical.
supports the making of art in its rawest, most honest form. And to do that is radical.
Grateful for the opportunities—still profoundly surprised that I get to do this thing I love. Mindful that in undertaking this work, especially now, I also have the opportunity to give back. Excited to soon be part of this community and to stand alongside the very talented A. A. Balaskovits.
February 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Grateful for the opportunities—still profoundly surprised that I get to do this thing I love. Mindful that in undertaking this work, especially now, I also have the opportunity to give back. Excited to soon be part of this community and to stand alongside the very talented A. A. Balaskovits.
“In a village everyone knows everyone’s business. In a village it’s much, much easier to eat what you’ve been served.”
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
January 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“In a village everyone knows everyone’s business. In a village it’s much, much easier to eat what you’ve been served.”
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
Congratulations to the winners and it’s nice to be on the list of finalists with l Latifa Ayad whose story was a finalist for flash fiction. Going to go celebrate this moment!
January 27, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Congratulations to the winners and it’s nice to be on the list of finalists with l Latifa Ayad whose story was a finalist for flash fiction. Going to go celebrate this moment!
“I have come here often. A whole childhood, every single day. All these arrivals are false, because in reality I was born here. Here I can do nothing but return.”
—Kerstin Elkman
—Kerstin Elkman
January 7, 2024 at 6:11 PM
“I have come here often. A whole childhood, every single day. All these arrivals are false, because in reality I was born here. Here I can do nothing but return.”
—Kerstin Elkman
—Kerstin Elkman
Can’t wait to read this copy of @kenyonreview.bsky.social freshly arrived in my mailbox. I love all the work our team chooses and I absolutely posed the book because it’s gorgeous!
September 26, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Can’t wait to read this copy of @kenyonreview.bsky.social freshly arrived in my mailbox. I love all the work our team chooses and I absolutely posed the book because it’s gorgeous!
“Eating is an agricultural act.”
—Wendell Berry
—Wendell Berry
September 23, 2023 at 6:04 PM
“Eating is an agricultural act.”
—Wendell Berry
—Wendell Berry
A cover reveal//inaugural issue of SWING: New Writing That Moves You. In awe of the art & can’t wait to read all the work—beautiful/moving—within its pages. Thank you to poet, Leigh Anne Couch, & her team. I’m on the advisory board. Do submit—swing.submittable.com/submit
September 19, 2023 at 3:21 PM
A cover reveal//inaugural issue of SWING: New Writing That Moves You. In awe of the art & can’t wait to read all the work—beautiful/moving—within its pages. Thank you to poet, Leigh Anne Couch, & her team. I’m on the advisory board. Do submit—swing.submittable.com/submit