"A wildly talented writer."
VICTOR LAVALLE
"By turns fizzy and funny, poignant and sad,
A Mirror Made of Rain is an acute, intensely readable exploration of hurt and resilience."
NAMITA GOKHALE
"Naheed Phiroze Patel paints a delicate and ironic portrait of small-town India as seen through the rueful and self-ironizing eyes of a young Parsi who will not make a grab for the brass ring."
JERRY PINTO
"A Mirror Made of Rain is luminous – a blistering and unflinching commentary on family, love, pain, addiction and destruction. We are lucky to have Naheed Phiroze Patel writing."
DIKSHA BASU
"Naheed Phiroze Patel’s sharp, glittering prose powerfully reveals the raw underbelly of a damaged family in this terrific debut."
MAHESH RAO
About
Naheed Patel is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she received fellowship awards for the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years.
Her writing has appeared in the New England Review, The Guardian, HuffPost, Scroll.in, BOMB Magazine, PEN America blog, EuropeNow Journal, Quarterly Conversation, Asymptote Journal and Sou’wester Journal.
She received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s 2016 July/August Fiction Open, and was a 2015 general contributor in fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Her debut novel A Mirror Made of Rain is forthcoming from Harper Collins India in 2021.
Selected Writing
Essays
Virtual learning freed my daughter from peer pressure and acting ‘feminine’ | The Guardian, 2020
Book Reviews
Privilege is Political: On Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field | BOMB Magazine, 2019
Author Interviews
In Conversation with Avni Doshi | Scroll, 2020
Fiction
Fiction: Call of the Greater Coucal | New England Review Vol 39.3
Contact Me
Agents:
Julia Kardon | HG Literary
Kanishka Gupta | Writer's Side
www.litagentkanishka.com/contact/