Naomi Kanakia

Naomi Kanakia is a writer who has published science fiction, young adult novels, and literary fiction. Her short story "Goodwill" appeared in American Short Fiction in 2022, and the magazine's page confirms her as the author. She is the author of three YA novels, the literary novel The Default World (Feminist Press, 2024), and the forthcoming nonfiction book What's So Great About the Great Books? (Princeton University Press, 2026). She also writes the Woman of Letters Substack. She holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins and was a 2015 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow.