Chaitali Sen

Chaitali Sen is the author of the novel The Pathless Sky (Europa Editions, 2015) and the story collection A New Race of Men from Heaven (Sarabande, 2023), selected by Danielle Evans as the winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Boulevard, Colorado Review, Ecotone, LitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, Shenandoah, and many other publications. The Pathless Sky was a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Fiction, and included on Idra Novey’s Buzzfeed list “10 Books That Challenge Our Political Landscape by Inventing New Ones,” Library Journal’s “Top Fall Indie Fiction,” and Mic.com’s “25 Essential Reads to Make Women’s History Last Longer than a Month.” She has taught writing classes around the country through the Writers’ League of Texas, Writing Workshops Dallas, The Writing Barn, Borough of Manhattan Community College, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Hunter College and lives in Central Texas.