MANISHA SHARMA
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AWARDS 
​Finalist, 2021 Iron Horse Literary Chapbook Contest
shortlisted, Laureate Prize, Harbor Editions, 2021
Longlisted, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Finalist, Cream City Review  Summer Fiction Contest, 2020
​Winner, Causeway Lit Poetry Award 2020
Semifinalist, American Short Fiction, American Short(er) Fiction Contest, 2019
Semifinalist, Cultural Weekly, 7th Annual Jack Grapes' Poetry Prize,  2019
First Prize in Fiction, Greenbelt Review "Aunty Laxshmi", judged by Yiyun Li, UC Davis,  Spring 2009
Runner-Up, Virginia Tech Fiction Prize "Godhara,"  judged by Sarah Pritchard
​POETRY
Amethyst Review, "
…समत्वं योग उच्यते …samatvam yoga ucyate (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 48) Equilibrium is yoga, " 11 Nov. 2022
Literary Mama, "I had a Boy," Spring 2021
Arts & Letters, "The Vanishing Girls..." , "Discerning Sex Selection," Spring 2021 print
The Madison Review, "Advice," 2020
The Fourth River, "Call for Artifacts....2099," March 2020
​Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, 2020
The Aerogram, "A Mother's Confession to Her Daughter", "Bhaiya, Bhaiya", "Names" 2017
The Arkansan Review, "It's a Girl...." 2019
The Bombay Review, "Five Poems" Winter 2016
New Asian Writing, 
"Indian Girl Crumbling" 2016
Puerto Del Sol, ​"Notes from the Field"  December 2017
The Saturday Poetry Series,"Dear Daughter", "Would You Still Blame Me?" November 5, 2016, in As it Ought to Be 

Silhouette Literary Magazine, "Yoga" "Handle with Care" pp. 6, 43 2009
TAB: The journal of poetics & poetry, "When God is the Groom" January 2017, print issue
POEMS IN ANTHOLOGIES
The Yearbook of Indian Poetry, "
I had a Boy" 2021
Choice Words: Writers on Abortion Ed. Annie Finch, Haymarket Books "You have No Name, No Grave, No Identity"  2020

FICTION

Greenbelt Review "Aunty Laxshmi"  First Prize in Fiction, judged by Yiyun Li, UC Davis, Spring 2009
Superficial Flesh "Godhara"  Page 68 in the journal PDF, here 3.2 Fall 2008

NON FICTION

Literary Hub "What It Mean to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion," 2022
Innovation Design Education Issue "Empty Bowls: Teaching Students Leadership, Empathy and Social Responsibility," (pp. 70) Article, 2019 

The Common, "An Epic in Prose: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese”, Book Review, 2015
The Common, "Dickens in Paris”, Dispatches, 2011
Huffington Post “Maneka Gandhi’s baseless marital rape…,"  2016
Pinnacle Living Mountain Homes Southern Style, “Heavenly Beauty Reborn”, 2007

INTERVIEWS

Australian Broadcasting, ABC radio "The Vanishing" 
​Gretchen Miller talks to Manisha Sharma and Kim Cunio on the program, Earshot.

SCHOLARLY

Sharma, Manisha and  Sonya Davey. “Understanding perspectives on sex-selection in India: an intersectional study” The Lancet  Global Health Section, 2014
 Peer Reviewed.

 What’s Next: “Blurred Images, Better Futures” By Suzie Boss Stanford Social Innovation Review . Featured research

Presentation on female feticide in India at the White House

  “Gendered Arrangements: India” Change Observer: Design Observer. Featured article, 2013

 “… The Lingering Problem of Female Infanticide” The Socjournal , A New Media Journal of Sociology and Society. Over 232,233 views as of Sept. 15, 2016
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  • PUBLICATIONS
  • Publications about my Work
  • ABOUT
  • YOGA
  • THE VANISHING
  • INTERDISCIPLINARY
  • TEACHING
  • C.V.
  • CONTACT
  • EVENTS