{"id":2769,"date":"2020-05-06T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2020-05-06T12:59:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:59:29","slug":"sheila-sundar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2020\/05\/06\/sheila-sundar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Sundar publishes short story in Crazyhorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2020\/05\/06\/sheila-sundar\/sheila-sundar-pic-bu-blog-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2020\/05\/Sheila-Sundar-Pic.BU-Blog-1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Sheila Sundar Pic.BU Blog (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2020\/05\/Sheila-Sundar-Pic.BU-Blog-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2020\/05\/Sheila-Sundar-Pic.BU-Blog-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2020\/05\/Sheila-Sundar-Pic.BU-Blog-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to share that Sheila Sundar (current fiction MFA) has published a story in the spring 2020 issue of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crazyhorse.cofc.edu\/issues\/number-97\/\"><em>Crazyhorse<\/em><\/a>!\u00a0 The story, &#8220;Deccan Basalt,&#8221; was workshopped in Leslie Epstein&#8217;s class this past year.<\/p>\n<p>Sheila says,\u00a0<em>I\u2019ve always been interested in stories of humanity&#8211;of finding solace and connection in unexpected places. Because I was raised in an immigrant community, my characters are also shaped by the experience of being uprooted, of holding onto elements of their old lives while finding new meaning and forming new bonds. \u201cDeccan Basalt\u201d was the second story I wrote for Leslie\u2019s workshop. Though the character, Vikram, had been developing in my mind for some time, he came together more fully through Leslie\u2019s early advice: focus on relationships, and let the complexity of human connection drive our writing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Sheila, and congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><span>Sheila Sundar is an MFA candidate in fiction at Boston University. Her writing is forthcoming in <\/span><i>Crazyhorse<\/i><span>, and has appeared in <\/span><i>Guernica,<\/i>\u00a0the<i> Los Angeles Review of Books<\/i><span>, and the<\/span><i>\u00a0Rumpus<\/i><span>. She lives in New Orleans with her family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to share that Sheila Sundar (current fiction MFA) has published a story in the spring 2020 issue of\u00a0Crazyhorse!\u00a0 The story, &#8220;Deccan Basalt,&#8221; was workshopped in Leslie Epstein&#8217;s class this past year. Sheila says,\u00a0I\u2019ve always been interested in stories of humanity&#8211;of finding solace and connection in unexpected places. Because I was raised in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}