Renuka Raghavan is the author of three prose and poetry collections. Her most recent is Nothing Resplendent Lives Here (Červená Barva Press, 2022). Her previous work has appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Bending Genres, The American Journal of Poetry, January House Lit, and Ghost Parachute, among others. A Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions nominee, she lives and writes in California.
And here we were, the two of us, burn-out C students with soft brains and loud hearts, convinced we were clever enough to balance the scales by breaking into Mr. Murphy’s house, because a D on a science project felt like a life sentence and detention for chewing gum felt like tyranny, and this was supposed to be our last,… Read more →