Puloma Ghosh joins us to discuss her debut short story collection Mouth (2024, Astra House). We discuss her vision for the genre-crossing book, her creative process, and how she got interested in writing, including her love of fan fiction. She reads from her stories “In The Winter” and “Persimmons.”
Ghosh was born in Kolkata, India and raised outside Boston, Massachusetts. She earned her undergraduate degree from Tufts University and her MFA from Bennington College. She currently lives in Chicago.
Ghosh’s short stories have appeared in One Story, Craft, Cutleaf, The Cantabrigian, and Another Chicago Magazine. She was the winner of the 2020 Craft Literary Flash Fiction Contest and the Morse Hamilton Fiction Prize. She was a Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar and a Bennington College Alumni Fellow.
Host: Davin Malasarn
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