Keya Mitra is the author of the novel manuscript, Love After Life, as well as Human Enough, which was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She has completed three novels—Human Enough, Love After Life, and My Surrogate (a semifinalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest)—a book-length memoir, and a short-story collection that has been a finalist for the Bakeless Prize, the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize, and a semifinalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Award. A section from her novel-in-progress, Immigrant Delay Disease, won the 2021 Tobias Wolff Prize and was published in the Bellingham Review (you can read the story here).

In 2022, she earned a $10,000 prestigious Arnold L. Graves and Lois S. Graves Award in the Humanities, given every two years, for "outstanding teaching in the Humanities” to research this same nove,l Immigrant Delay Disease, in Meghalaya, India.

A Fulbright Scholar and graduate (PhD and MFA) of the University of Houston’s creative writing program, Keya is Director of Creative Writing and Editing and Publishing, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the internationally distributed literary magazine, Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads, at Pacific University, where she was awarded the 2018 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.