Pritha Bhattacharyya is a fiction writer and teacher.

Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere, and has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology.

She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Writer-in-Residence at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics. She received her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow. She received her MFA from Boston University, where she was awarded the Leslie Epstein Global Fellowship to travel to Osaka, Japan. Her work has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Granum Foundation, Willapa Bay AiR, Key West Literary Seminar, Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA), Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Inprint Houston, Tagore Society of Houston, and the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers.

She was shortlisted for the 2025 Granum Foundation Prize, and is the recipient of the 2024 Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award from the Key West Literary Seminar, the 2023 Inprint Joan and Stanford Alexander Prize in Fiction, and the 2022 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction. In 2019, she was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, a second runner-up for the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship, and a semifinalist for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. She has served as a staff member for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

She lives in Houston, TX.