Kavi Yaga is the author of 'The Vanishings: Eight Stories', (Texas Review Press, August 2026) which was selected by Kaveh Akbar as the Judge's Choice of the George Garrett Fiction Prize. Her travel memoir, 'Walking in Clouds: A Journey to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar' (HarperCollins India, 2018), was nominated for the AutHer Awards. A 2023 Yaddo Fellow and runner-up for the 2021 Calvino Prize for Speculative Fiction, Kavi attended the 2022 Summer Session at Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her stories and essays have appeared in One Story, The Hindu, Swamp Pink, Outlook Traveller, Killing the Buddha, River Teeth Journal (Beautiful Things), and elsewhere. She is co-editor of Dr. Y. V. Reddy's 'Work, Wisdom, Legacy: 31 Essays From India'  (OrientBlackswan, 2025). ​​Kavi Yaga lives in Hyderabad with her husband, Hari,. In previous avataars, she worked as a software engineer in Chicago and a development economics researcher in South India.