Maya Shanbhag Lang is the author of What We Carry, named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a “Best Of 2020” by Amazon, Bookshop.Org, “Good Morning America,” PopSugar, Platform Magazine, Bustle, and others. She is also the author of The Sixteenth of June, a modern reinterpretation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a must-read novel by CBS and InStyle.
Lang’s essays have been widely published and anthologized. Winner of the Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction, she also writes short stories. In 2020, she was named a “Woman You Should Know” by the American Civil Rights Museum for representing Indian American voices.
After graduating magna cum laude from Swarthmore College, Lang obtained her M.A. from NYU and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stony Brook University. Her dissertation, “The Hypochondriac: Bodies in Protest from Herman Melville to Toni Morrison” won the Weisinger Award for outstanding doctoral achievement.
A passionate teacher and author advocate, Lang enjoys connecting with emerging and established writers alike. She is the proud parent of a non-binary teenager and lives in Westchester.