Kavi Yaga

Kavi Yaga is a writer based in Hyderabad, India. The Vanishings, her debut short story collection, was selected by Kaveh Akbar for The George Garrett Fiction Prize and published by Texas Review Press. She is also the author of a popular travel memoir, Walking in Clouds (Harper Collins, 2018). Kavi is co-compiler and co-author of the anthology Work, Wisdom, Legacy: 31 Essays from India (Orient Blackswan, 2025), a 2023 Yaddo Fellow, and recipient of the Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction’s 2nd-Place Award selected by Matt Bell. Her stories and essays have appeared in One Story, Swamp Pink, River Teeth Journal, and elsewhere.