Reena Shah

This week we visit with Reena Shah on Roosevelt Island in New York City. 

Reena Shah is the author of Every Happiness, her debut novel. Her work has been featured in the Masters Review, Electric Literature, Joyland, BBC, the American Prospect, National Geographic, and the Guardian, among other publications. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, Millay Arts, Tin House, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Cuttyhunk Island Residency, and the Fulbright Foundation. She received an MFA in fiction from the Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature. For many years she was a kathak dancer in New York and India. She now lives on Roosevelt Island, NY with her family and teaches in a public school.

BUY AND READ EVERY HAPPINESS!

For more on Reena: reenadshah.com

Reena's Books on the Bed:

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag

The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam

We the Animals by Justin Torres

Carryout by Hasan Dudar

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown

Make Your Way Home by Carrie R. Moore

 

Matt's Gifts for Reena:

Under Water by Tara Menon

But Where's Home? by Toni Ann Johnson

A Good Country by Laleh Khadivi