Mandira PattnaikMandira Pattnaik is an Indian fiction writer, essayist, poet, and columnist with over 250 publications, print and digital, including in university journals The McNeese Review, Quarterly West, Penn Review, Timber, Quarter After Eight, Watershed Review and others. Her themes include home, motherhood, and family, as also climate, strife, migration, marginalization, and social justice, weaved around places and people she identifies with. Mandira's work has received multiple anthology inclusions and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net in 2020, 2021, and 2022. She serves on the masthead of Reckon Review, trampset, and Vestal Review, and also leads writing workshops. She balances her writing life with vacations in nature with her family. Read More Read Less