Kanika Agrawal

Kanika Agrawal is a queer Indian writer, editor, and educator. As a mad diasporic hybrid who developed over six countries on four continents, she works between and across languages, geographies, and disciplines. She received a BS in Biology and a BS in Writing from MIT. She then earned an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver, teaching academic and creative writing at both institutions. She has also taught writing to people experiencing incarceration, homelessness, addiction, and domestic violence.

Kanika is a co-author of Save Error: Writing, Agency, and Playability in the Academic Institution (np:/Counterpath, forthcoming in 2026). Her writing appears in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Black Warrior Review, filling Station, FOLDER, Notre Dame Review, SAND, and various speculative publications. Currently, Kanika serves as Hybrid/Nonfiction Editor at Foglifter, a biannual literary journal of LGBTQIA2S+ writing; Fiction Editor at khōréō, a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora authors; and Assistant Editor at Conjunctions. She has been awarded residencies/fellowships by the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center.

Kanika lives in Denver, CO, with her senior toy fox terrier. You can also find her at antiquarkic.com.