Desi Books Contributing Authors

This is an alphabetical listing of freelance authors who have contributed to Desi Books. We are thankful to all for sharing their work. Please click on a name for more details.

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Veena Narayan quit her teaching job to devote more time to her writing. She lives in Kochi, Kerala. Click through for the full bio and contributions.

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P. S. Nissim is a writer and literary critic with a focus on Indian writing in translation and genre fiction. He lives in Bangalore and is active on Twitter as @ps_nissim. Click through for the full bio and contributions.

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Suhasini Patni is a freelance writer based in Jaipur and Delhi. Currently, she is working on her postgraduate degree in linguistics at the University of Rochester, New York. Click through for the full bio and contributions.

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N. Kalyan Raman is an award-winning translator of contemporary Tamil fiction and poetry into English. He lives and works in Chennai. Click through for the full bio and contributions.

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Rashi Rohatgi is an American Desi Norwegian and a writer and translator. Click through for the full bio and contributions.

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Shalvi Jaxay Shah is a writer and translator based in Ahmedabad and New York City. Twitter: @shallwe_write. Click through for the full bio and contributions.

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Saurabh Sharma (They/He) is a Delhi-based writer and freelance journalist. On Instagram/Twitter: @writerly_life. Click through for the full bio and contributions.

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Meenal Shrivastava was born in Jaipur and lives in British Columbia, Canada where she is a writer and a professor of political economy and global studies at Athabasca University. Click through for the full bio and contributions.

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Dr. Nidhi Shrivastava’s research focuses on the #MeToo movement, Hindi film cinema, censorship, the figure of the abducted and raped women, Indian rape culture, and the 1947 Partition. She grew up in India, Malaysia, and Singapore before migrating to the United States in 2001 with her family. Click through for the full bio and contributions.

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Nikesh Shukla is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the co-founder of the literary journal, The Good Journal and The Good Literary Agency. Click through for the full bio and contributions.