Ploughshares Summer 2021

By Rachel Khong, Lavanya Vasudevan, Stephen Tuttle, and more

2021

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The 50th Anniversary Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” Ploughshares showcases the work of “writers who make the shapes they want to make, who follow the flow of the story and who remind us of all a story or an essay can do and be,” guest editor Aimee Bender writes in her introduction to the 50th Anniversary Issue. “Here, then, are some writers who work the form to hold the complexity, a bountifully inhabited sea of prose.” Contributors to the Summer 2021 Issue of Ploughshares include Nana Kwame Adjei-Breniyah, Rumaan Alam, Patrick Cottrell, Amelia Gray, Mona Awad, and others.

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Authors

Rachel Khong

Author · 6 books

Rachel Khong is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and named a best book of the year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; and Esquire. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Cut, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and Tin House. In 2018, she founded the Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission District. She was born in Malaysia and lives in California.

Lavanya Vasudevan

Author · 1 book

Lavanya Vasudevan's fiction has been published in Ploughshares, Pinch Journal, The Masters Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. Her story, "Wild Geese," was named a Distinguished Story of 2021 in the Best American Short Stories. Other work has been selected for Wigleaf Top 50 and The Best Small Fictions, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was born in India and lives near Seattle with her family.

Mona Awad is the author of BUNNY, ALL'S WELL and 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL. 13 WAYS won the Amazon Best First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Her second novel, BUNNY, was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror, the New England Book Award, and won the Ladies of Horror Fiction Best Novel Award. It is currently being optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions. ALL'S WELL was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. Her new novel, ROUGE, is forthcoming in September 2023 with Simon & Schuster. She earned an MFA from Brown University and an MScR in English from the University of Edinburgh where her dissertation was on fear in the fairy tale. In 2018, she completed a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Denver. She currently teaches creative writing at Syracuse University and lives in Boston.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Breniyah

Author · 1 book

Rumaan Alam

Author · 9 books

I'm the author of the novels Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother, and Leave the World Behind. My short fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, Crazyhorse, Meridian, and elsewhere. I've also written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Republic. I studied writing at Oberlin College. Now I live in New York with my husband and two kids.