{"id":1270,"date":"2026-07-26T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T21:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:29:53","slug":"meghana-mysore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2026\/meghana-mysore\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghana Mysore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>author of <em>Let All Our Ghosts Depart<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meghana Mysore is an Indian-American writer, originally from Portland, Oregon. She came South to earn her MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University in Roanoke and now is Assistant Professor of English at Randolph College and has previously taught at Amherst College and Bucknell University, She is the 2025 recipient of the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction and was a 2022-23 Steinbeck Fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meghanamysore.com\/bio\">Author Website<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2b4002ad wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/mmysore_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Woman with black hair, dark eyes, white shirt and black and silver necklace\" class=\"wp-image-1236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/mmysore_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/mmysore_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/letallourghosts.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Let All Our Ghosts Depart with beach scene with two children whose heads have faded out as if washed away\" class=\"wp-image-1255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/letallourghosts.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/letallourghosts-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let All Our Ghosts Depart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[52,44,58,56,51,57],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-33","tag-debut","tag-fiction","tag-indian-american-writer","tag-randolph-college","tag-short-stories","tag-virginia-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}