Anushka Jasraj

Anushka Jasraj is a fiction writer from Mumbai, India. She has twice been selected as Asia Regional Winner for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2012 and 2017.[1]

Anushka Jasraj
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Texas-Austin
GenreShort Story
Notable awardsCommonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia

Life

She holds a BFA in Film Production from New York University and a MFA in Creative Writing from the New Writers Project as well as a MA in Women's and Gender Studies from the University of Texas-Austin.[2] She was a 2015-16 fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and was awarded the 2017 Stars at Night emerging writer award by American Short Fiction.[3]

Her work has been published in Scroll.in,[4] Internazionale, Adda Stories,[5] and Granta.[6]

References
  1. "The 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize | Commonwealth Writers". Commonwealth Writers. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  2. "Anushka Jasraj". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  3. "Anushka Jasraj". American Short Fiction. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  4. Jasraj, Anushka. "GV Desani's journal: The manuscript diaries of the first modern Indian writer in English". Scroll.in. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  5. "Circus - adda". adda. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  6. "Anushka Jasraj". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 10 March 2018.


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