Raia Small

Raia Small was born and raised in San Francisco by a painter from Delhi and a cab driver from Burlingame. Her writing has been published in Zyzzyva, Midnight Sun, Kaleidoscoped, and Make/shift. She was a finalist for the 2025 Tom Howard/ John H. Reid Fiction; Essay Contest and the 2026 Steinbeck Fellowship, and has received fellowships from Periplus and the Kearny Street Writers’ Workshop. She is currently a Bernice Ruben Arnold Scholar in creative nonfiction at San Francisco State University, where she serves as a poetry editor for 14 Hills Magazine.