Sindya Bhanoo is the author of the story collection Seeking Fortune Elsewhere (Catapult). The collection is longlisted for the American Library Association’s Carnegie Medal and was the winner of the New American Voices Award. Sindya’s fiction has appeared in Granta, New England Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award, the Disquiet Literary Prize, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers conferences.
A longtime newspaper reporter, Sindya has worked as a reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post, where she is still a frequent contributor. She was most recently a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Her reporting has received support and recognition from numerous organizations, including the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The New York Press Club, the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting, Kaiser Family Foundation and the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT.
Sindya is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, the Michener Center for Writers, and Carnegie Mellon University.
She lives in Corvallis, Oregon and is an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University.
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