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

Biography

Rishi Reddi was born in

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, India. She grew up in the United Kingdom and the United States. She is a graduate of

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, where she studied English, and the

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. In 2001, she earned a master's degree in creative writing from

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. 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

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Secretary of Environment. She lives in

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Awards and honors

Her book ''Karma and Other Stories'' received the 2008 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Rishi Reddi's work was chosen for

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2005,Houghton Mifflin Best Short Stories 2005
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's "Selected Shorts" program, and received an honorable mention for 2004

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

. She has been a Fellow at the

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and the MacDowell Colony and a recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

References

External links

Reddi's website

Interview in ''Nirali'' magazine

Rediff - January 3, 2006
Rishi Reddi talks about growing up bicultural in the US
from the web-only interview series
WGBH One Guest
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