Kolkata, India & New York
Imagination Unbound Fellowship
Fiction with Sheree Renée Thomas
I’m a Bengali Dalit speculative fiction writer and editor born and raised in Kolkata, India, and currently residing in New York City. I belong to the first wave of Dalit Futurists in English-language fiction, and am the first author from India to be nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. My fiction and commentary have been published in The Gollancz Book of South Asian SF, The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, The Hindustan Times, Words without Borders, Strange Horizons Magazine, Nightmare Magazine and the Rubin Museum’s Spiral Magazine, among others, and have been translated into Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, German, Polish and Mandarin.
I have three masters degrees from three continents, two tattoos in ancient languages, the spice tolerance of a five-year-old, and am an average but indomitable bachata dancer.
Soy escritora y editora bengalí dalit de ficción especulativa, nacida y criada en Calcuta, India, y actualmente radicada en la ciudad de Nueva York. Formo parte de la primera generación de futuristas dalit en la narrativa de lengua inglesa, además de ser la primera autora de la India nominada a los premios Hugo y Nebula. Mi ficción y ensayos se han publicado en The Gollancz Book of South Asian SF, The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, The Hindustan Times, Words without Borders, Strange Horizons Magazine, Nightmare Magazine y en Spiral Magazine del Museo Rubin, entre otras publicaciones, y han sido traducidos al bengalí, hindi, malayalam, alemán, polaco y mandarín.
Poseo tres maestrías de tres continentes, dos tatuajes en lenguas antiguas, la tolerancia al picante propia de un niño de cinco años y soy una bailarina de bachata mediocre pero indomable.