Shastri Akella

Fine Arts Works Center fellow and UMass MFA/PhD graduate Shastri Akella is represented by Chris Clemans (Janklow & Nesbit). His debut novel, The Sea Elephants will be published by Flatiron Books in 2023. His writing may be found in Guernica, The Masters Review, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, World Literature Today, and elsewhere.

“Inside the Snake is the Safest Place to Be”: Nation, Identity, and the Impossibility of Going Back in Sabina Murray’s The Human Zoo

The cultural theorist James Clifford asserts that one can to go to a former home but not go back. The …

Nov 13

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Shastri Akella

Technology and Monstrous Children in Alex McElroy’s Daddy Issues

I am often drawn to long works of fiction: I admire their ability to sustain my interest in strikingly original …

Jan 28

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Shastri Akella