Pawan Mishra

Pawan Mishra is an Indian-American novelist and storyteller writing in Hindi and English. He grew up in

Aligarh, India — one of seven siblings, the son of a schoolteacher — and studied Mathematics and Computing at

the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His debut novel, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy, a satire of office

politics in small-town northern India, won the 2016 eLit Book Award for Literary Fiction and the Readers’

Favorite International Award, and was a finalist for the NIEA Award for Humor and IAN Book of the Year.

Kirkus Reviews called it “an absurdist tale of office and personal politics.” Beyond the page, he produced and

directed the animated series My Teacher Hilda (Amazon Prime Video) and the short film The Smart Phone Story.

He is the founder of the Lune Spark Center for Creativity, an arts-education center in North Carolina, and of

Myrtle Nexgen Capital, a private equity firm — a career bridging business and the arts. He lives in North

Carolina with his wife and two daughters. New fiction and non-fiction in both his languages is forthcoming.