About (Biography)
Born in Bangalore, India, Shubha Venugopal has lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio as a child. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
After earning her Bachelor's Degree from Northwestern University, she went on to complete a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan.
In January 2008, she graduated with her MFA in Fiction from Bennington College in Vermont.
She is now an Assistant Professor in the Pan African Studies department at the California State University Northridge.
When she's not working, Shubha loves spending time with her young daughter and son exploring California and enjoying the year-round warm weather.
Shubha has been a finalist in fiction competitions by Glimmer Train and The Atlantic Monthly. She won the Ellen Meloy Literature for Social Change Award (2008) and was a 2009 Robert Olen Butler Short Story Prize finalist.
Venugopal's work is anthologized in A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection and appears in literary magazines including: Post Road Magazine, Storyglossia, Word Riot, VerbSap, Elimae, Flashquake, Literary Mama, The Scruffy Dog Review, Antithesis Common, Eclectica, Mslexia, Kalliope, The Angler, Gambara, Women Writers: A Zine, Todd Point Review and Boston Literary Magazine. She is currently working on a novel and a short story collection.
If you'd like to purchase A Stranger Among Us (2008), which includes Shubha Venugopal's "Bhakthi in the Water," Click here.