Reema

Reema Rao is a fiction writer from Chicago. She is currently at work on a short story collection, from which individual stories have received the Story Foundation Prize and the Larry Brown Short Story Award. She is an awardee of the 2026 Creative Accelerator Fund from the Illinois Arts Council, a 2026 Periplus Finalist, and a 2024-2025 Jennifer Weiner Fellow. Her work has also been supported by Tin House, the Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Storyknife Writers Retreat, and more.