Zara Chowdhary - Awards & Recognition

Shakti Bhatt Memorial Prize for Best Debut 2025

Mumbai Literature Live! Award, Best Nonfiction Debut 2025

Ramnath Goenka Sahitya Samman Longlist 2025

Crossword Book Award Shortlist 2025

PEN AMERICA Finalist - Best Nonfiction 2024

Swami Agnivesh Memorial Award by the Hindus for Human Rights, 2024

American Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Creative Nonfiction Finalist 2020

Iowa State University Research Excellence Award 2020

Pearl Hogrefe Prize in Creative Nonfiction (2019)

Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Parent-Writer Fellowship (2018)

Education

Arts Leadership & Teaching

Visual Arts Editor Flyway Journal of Writing and Environment (Spring 2017 - Spring 2019)

University of Wisconsin- Madison, Residency Lead, 2023-24 Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence program. Read more here.

Iowa State University, Rhetoric and Creative Nonfiction

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hindi and South Asian Cultures

University of Iowa, Creative Writing and South Asia

Tin House Summer Workshop 2025

Hugo House, Winter, 2025

Vermont Studio Center, Spring 2026

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