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Rahul Mehta
Birth Place:West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation:Novelist
Nationality:American

Rahul Mehta is an American author. They were born and raised in West Virginia, and their work focuses on the experience of being queer and South Asian. Mehta is the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Gay Fiction and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction for their short story collection Quarantine (2011).[1] [2] They teach Creative Writing at the University of the Arts.[3]

Bibliography

Recognition

Mehta's work has been reviewed in many publications, including the Iowa Review,[6] Fiction Writers Review,[7] Lambda Literary Review,[8] Time Out,[9] and Booklist.[10] Brian Leung said of Mehta's short story collection, "Quarantine marks a turning of a corner, a representative flashpoint, at least, for LGBT and Asian-American writers who have felt obligated to center their creative work around savory dishes, coming out, the exotic customs of intervening relatives, protest, all the expected signifiers." Leung concludes, "Mehta's stories acknowledge that we can occupy more than one subject position."[11] V. Jo Hsu writes that Mehta "artfully interweaves sexual and racial tensions without creating an antagonistic "other."[12]

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rahul Mehta on Pushing Through Writer's Block and Exploring Pain.... Centrone. Brian. 2017-04-16. Lambda Literary. 2019-06-11.
  2. Web site: Unquarantined. 2013-10-02. Asian American Writers' Workshop. en. 2019-06-11.
  3. Web site: Rahul University of the Arts. www.uarts.edu. 2019-06-11.
  4. Web site: 'No Other World' by Rahul Mehta. Singh. Rajat. 2017-05-18. Lambda Literary. 2019-06-11.
  5. Web site: Rahul Mehta's QUARANTINE The Iowa Review. iowareview.org. 2019-06-11.
  6. Web site: Rahul Mehta's QUARANTINE The Iowa Review. iowareview.org. 2019-06-11.
  7. Web site: [Reviewlet] Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta]. Hsu. V. Jo. Fiction Writers Review. 2019-06-11.
  8. Web site: 'Quarantine' by Rahul Mehta. Rutman. Troy. 2011-08-08. Lambda Literary. 2019-06-11.
  9. Web site: 10 LGBT books to read this summer. Time Out United States. 6 June 2017 . en. 2019-06-11.
  10. Web site: Booklist's Top 10 First Novels: 2017. 2017-11-20. ALA Book Club Central. en-US. 2019-06-11. 2019-10-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20191026135222/http://www.bookclubcentral.org/2017/11/20/booklists-top-10-first-novels-2017/. dead.
  11. Web site: Unquarantined. 2013-10-02. Asian American Writers' Workshop. en. 2019-06-11.
  12. Web site: [Reviewlet] Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta]. Hsu. V. Jo. Fiction Writers Review. 2019-06-11.
  13. Web site: 17th Annual Out100. 2011-12-11. www.out.com. en. 2019-06-11.
  14. Web site: Quarantine: Stories Awards & Grants. www.ala.org. 2019-06-11.

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