Faculty Spotlight
Janika Oza
Fiction Workshop Leader
Janika Oza is the author of the novel A History of Burning, an instant national bestseller in Canada and a New York Times Notable Book of 2023. She is the winner of a 2022 O. Henry Award and the 2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in publications such as BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, The Best Small Fiction 2019 Anthology, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She is an assistant editor at The Rumpus and lives in Toronto.