Hema’s work has appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Common, New Letters, The Pinch, Fourteen Hills, Litro Magazine, and more. Her work has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 Narrative Fall Fiction Prize and has received three Pushcart Nominations.
She served as a reader for The New England Review, The Barbara Deming Fund, and The Sonoma County Writers Camp Fellowships.
She lives in San Francisco and is working on a linked stories collection and a novella.
Workshops, Retreats, and Fellowships
July 2025 One Story Writers Conference (New York City, NY)
October 2024 Sonoma County Writers Camp Fellow (Sonoma, CA)
June 2024 Napa Valley Writers Conference (Napa, CA)
May 2024 Kenyon Writers’ Workshop Online
June 2022 Kenyon Writers’ Workshop (Gambier, OH)
July 2019 Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Sewanee, TN)
July 2019 San Francisco Writers’ Grotto Fellow