Maya Shanbhag Lang is the author of
What We Carry: A Memoir, (Random House, April 2020), a
New York Times Editor's Pick and one Amazon's Best Books of 2020. She is also the author of
The Sixteenth of June (Scribner), long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a Finalist for the Audie Awards for Best Audio Book. She has been featured in
The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, In Style, and others.
Winner the 2017 Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction and the 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation-Bread Loaf Scholarship in Fiction, she was a Finalist for
Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers.
The daughter of Indian immigrants, she lives outside of New York City with her daughter. Visit her website at
www.mayalang.com