About
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Manisha teaches English at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Born and raised in India, Manisha Sharma is a finalist for the 2021 Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Contest. Her short story was long-listed for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and her poetry book manuscript, The Vanishing Girls of India, was shortlisted for the Laureate Prize by Harbor Editions. She is a finalist for the Cream City Review's 2020 Summer Fiction Contest, a winner of The Causeway Lit Poetry Prize, a semifinalist for the 2019 American Short(er) Fiction Contest, and Cultural Weekly's 7th Annual Jack Grapes Poetry Contest. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Arts and Letters, Literary Mama, and other fine journals. Her fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and interdisciplinary work has appeared in Choice Words: Writers on Abortion anthology, edited by Annie Finch, in journals such as Arts & Letters, The Fourth River, Puerto Del Sol, The Bombay Review, The Common, TAB, a journal of poetry & poetics, The Huffington Post, Lancet, Design Observer, and elsewhere. An AWP poetry mentee, Manisha has been awarded residencies by the Vermont Studio Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her interdisciplinary work and installation, on female feticide in India, The Vanishing, was aired on radio, and run at galleries and universities in India, United States, and Australia. Manisha has an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Tech, an MA and a PhD in English literature from India. She is also an internationally-certified yoga teacher and instructor with experience conducting yoga and meditation sessions for nearly two decades in India, Australia, and the United States of America.
Manisha teaches English at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Born and raised in India, Manisha Sharma is a finalist for the 2021 Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Contest. Her short story was long-listed for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and her poetry book manuscript, The Vanishing Girls of India, was shortlisted for the Laureate Prize by Harbor Editions. She is a finalist for the Cream City Review's 2020 Summer Fiction Contest, a winner of The Causeway Lit Poetry Prize, a semifinalist for the 2019 American Short(er) Fiction Contest, and Cultural Weekly's 7th Annual Jack Grapes Poetry Contest. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Arts and Letters, Literary Mama, and other fine journals. Her fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and interdisciplinary work has appeared in Choice Words: Writers on Abortion anthology, edited by Annie Finch, in journals such as Arts & Letters, The Fourth River, Puerto Del Sol, The Bombay Review, The Common, TAB, a journal of poetry & poetics, The Huffington Post, Lancet, Design Observer, and elsewhere. An AWP poetry mentee, Manisha has been awarded residencies by the Vermont Studio Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her interdisciplinary work and installation, on female feticide in India, The Vanishing, was aired on radio, and run at galleries and universities in India, United States, and Australia. Manisha has an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Tech, an MA and a PhD in English literature from India. She is also an internationally-certified yoga teacher and instructor with experience conducting yoga and meditation sessions for nearly two decades in India, Australia, and the United States of America.
