Shubha Venugopal 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.  An instructor of literature and writing at California State University, Northridge, she lives with her family in the San Fernando Valley. Venugopal is currently working on a novel and a short story collection, and can be found at shubavenugopal.com.

"A passionate writer!  Her work explores the lives of Indian-Americans - focusing on the conflict between loyalty to tradition and personal identity.  Shubha tells a story with a compassionate eye and a search for truth."  Elizabeth Cox  "Shubha Venugopal is a terrific writer: astute, knowledgeable and inspired. Her style is vibrant and strong, and she has an instinctive ability to discover and nurture the best aspects of her talent. Her prose is fluid, her vision is keen and lovely."  Les Plesko  "Venugopal,…thrives on dichotomies. It's those manipulations of language and the wealth of particular details that elevates…" Steven J. McDermott