Saskya Jain grew up in New Delhi. Her first novel, Fire Under Ash (Penguin Random House, 2014), was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt Prize. Her second novel, Geeta Rahman at Championship Point (Simon & Schuster, 2021), was nominated for the Times of India AutHer Award and the Tata Literature Live Book of the Year Award. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Intelligent Life, The Economist, The Caravan and DIE ZEIT, among others. She has taught creative writing and literature at Hong Kong University, Grinnell College and Dartmouth College, and has held writer’s residencies at Hedgebrook and Art Omi (USA), Sangam House and Goethe Institut Bangalore (India) and Toji Cultural Centre (South Korea).

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