In Conversation: Kavi Yaga und Naheed Phiroze Patel

September 16th, 2026 - 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Buy tickets here Join authors Kavi Yaga and Naheed Phiroze Patel for a reading and conversation celebrating the launch of THE VANISHINGS (TRP, 2026) THE VANISHINGS, Kavi Yaga’s debut story collection, is Kaveh Akbar’s choice for the 2026 George Garret Fiction Prize, published by Texas Review Press. Yaga’s stories explore faith, myth, impermanence, and constructed realities through characters of women in imagined rural South Indian landscapes. Naheed Phiroze Patel’s MIRROR MADE OF RAIN “paints a delicate and ironic portrait of small-town India” (Jerry Pinto) in a “gut-wrenching debut [which] offers a looking glass into the luxurious homes of Indian high society” (Buzzfeed). Please join these two authors for a rich and wide-ranging conversation about writing into cultural and societal traditions as a form of reckoning with the truth about women’s lives.