Geetha Iyer

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Geetha Iyer received an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University in 2014. Her writing includes fiction in Orion and Gulf Coast, and poetry forthcoming in Ninth Letter and the Mid-American Review, among others. Recognition for her work includes the James Wright Poetry Award, the Calvino Prize, the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize, and a work-study scholarship for the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. She grew up in the United Arab Emirates.

Prize anthology mentions

O Henry Prize Stories 2016

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