Overview
I am a New York City-based science fiction and fantasy editor. I am also a published science fiction author with a Nebula Award nomination in 2020, so I bring to my writers the same cooperation, insight and attention that I receive and admire in my own editors.
I have 8+ years of publishing experience in different countries. I am originally from India, and worked as a junior editor at Penguin Random House India. In the US, I have worked as an editor at Uncanny Magazine, and with different publishing imprints and independent clients. In 2018 I received the Locus Award and a Hugo Award nomination (as the first person from India) for an anthology I co-edited: Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler. I am also a 2015 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, where I was the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholar.
I am a deep and abiding fan of the genre and closely enjoy the stories I work with. I brainstorm back and forth with my writers, love the characters and their journeys, offer advice on how to make the stories more accessible to a wider range of readerships. Because of my international publishing experience (also including the UK, Australia and Canada, besides the US and India) I have some familiarity with reader expectations in other countries. I started from a zero-publishing background (people in my family didn't even know how books were made!) and have spent years learning each step of the writing/publishing process from talented and considerate professionals, so I'm always happy to share those tips with the next person taking the same route.
I look forward to enjoying your works!
I have 8+ years of publishing experience in different countries. I am originally from India, and worked as a junior editor at Penguin Random House India. In the US, I have worked as an editor at Uncanny Magazine, and with different publishing imprints and independent clients. In 2018 I received the Locus Award and a Hugo Award nomination (as the first person from India) for an anthology I co-edited: Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler. I am also a 2015 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, where I was the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholar.
I am a deep and abiding fan of the genre and closely enjoy the stories I work with. I brainstorm back and forth with my writers, love the characters and their journeys, offer advice on how to make the stories more accessible to a wider range of readerships. Because of my international publishing experience (also including the UK, Australia and Canada, besides the US and India) I have some familiarity with reader expectations in other countries. I started from a zero-publishing background (people in my family didn't even know how books were made!) and have spent years learning each step of the writing/publishing process from talented and considerate professionals, so I'm always happy to share those tips with the next person taking the same route.
I look forward to enjoying your works!
Services
Fiction
Fantasy
Literary Fiction
Science Fiction
Young Adult
Non-Fiction
LGBTQ Non-Fiction
Travel
Writing & Publishing
Languages
English (AUS)
English (CAN)
English (UK)
English (US)
Awards
- Locus Award
- Hugo Award (Finalist)
- British Fantasy Award (Finalist)
- Octavia E. Butler Scholar
- Commonwealth Scholar
- Nebula Award (Finalist)
Certifications
- Clarion West Writers Workshop
- University of Stirling (Scotland), MLitt in Publishing Studies
- Rutgers University, MFA in Creative Writing
Work experience
Uncanny Magazine
Jul, 2017 —
Apr, 2018
(9 months)
• Acquired original poetry and reprint fiction for the twice-Hugo-Award-winning science fiction magazine
• Represented Uncanny Magazine at science fiction and fantasy conventions
• Planned and promoted Uncanny Magazine’s annual Kickstarter campaign on social media, amassing over $55,000
Three of my poetry acquisitions from this period made it to the Rhysling Award shortlist in 2019.
Self-employed
Jan, 2015 —
Present
My freelance and contractual work over the past three years has been with both traditional presses and imprints and with traditional clients. In 2018 I won a Locus Award and was a Hugo Award finalist (the first person from India to be both) for my co-edited title Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler. My work was also mentioned in an article in the New York Times about sensitivity reading, though with my name redacted because of personal choice.
Penguin Random House India
Jun, 2012 —
Aug, 2013
(about 1 year)
• Copy-edited works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry in English
• Line-edited works of fiction in English
• Drafted and corrected contracts
• Assisted the Production department with the printing of books
• Supervised freelance typesetters, proofreaders and interns
• Wrote blurbs, marketing copy and catalog text
Portfolio
Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the Science Fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour. Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s dep... read more
For as long as Isaac could remember, the Middleton High baseball team hasn't won a single game. So when he tries out as a sophomore and makes the team, he's excited but not surprised. After the first pathetic losses of the season, Isaac starts to get frustrate... read more
Debut author Margaret Owen crafts a powerful saga of vengeance, survival, and sacrifice--perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake--in The Merciful Crow. One way or another, we always feed the crows. A future chieftain Fie abides by one rule: look af... read more
Leaving behind a nomadic and dangerous career as a journalist, Sarah DeVaughan returns to India, the country of her childhood and a place of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her sister, ... read more
Tatiana "Pluta" Spektor was a mostly happy, if awkward, young girl-until her sociologist father was disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War. Sent a world away by her grieving mother to attend boarding school outside New York City, Pluta wrestles alone with th... read more
Jonathan Berger, known locally as The Bergermeister, is the head of Bergerton’s illustrious Berger family. The Bergers have prospered in the town ever since Jon’s great-great-grandfather refused to move from the spot where his donkey cart toppled over on the s... read more
Literary Nonfiction. Autobiography. Asian & Asian American Studies. Graphic Novel. Translated from the Japanese by Kumar Sivasubramanian. In 2004, having never before left Japan, 56-year-old manga author Yukichi Yamamatsu travelled to India, armed with little ... read more
I am not a fighter. I am a trapeze master. An act of compassion puts a trapeze artist in India on a collision course with a terrifying supernatural power in His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light: a Tor.com Original from Dalit writer Mimi Mondal.At the Publ... read more
A SAFARI INTO DANGER!There are remote corners of the British Empire where the supernatural lurks and the shadows linger, where few dare go and fewer return.A TIME FOR HEROES!This is the world of the little-known Department of Antiquities—the so-called “Strange... read more
In 1942, after Mahatma Gandhi asks Indians to give one family member to the freedom movement, ten-year-old Anjali is devastated to think of her father risking his life for the freedom struggle. But it turns out he isn’t the one joining. Anjali’s mother is. And... read more
A SUICIDA MACHINE. A CHILD WITH A SECRET THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. THE MAN TRAPPED BETWEEN THEM.In the City, where machines take care of everything, lives Albert, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary problem: He’s being blackmailed into becoming the firs... read more
The March/April 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, A.T. Greenblatt, Emma Törzs, Sarah Monette, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Brandon O'Brien, reprinted fiction by Nalo Hopkinson, essays by R.F. Kuang, Neile Gra... read more
The January/February 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Elizabeth Bear, S.B. Divya, Arkady Martine, Marissa Lingen, Sunny Moraine, Vivian Shaw, and R.K. Kalaw, reprinted fiction by Vandana Singh, essays by Fran Wilde, J... read more
The May/June 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Ursula Vernon, John Chu, Chinelo Onwualu, Naomi Kritzer, Hiromi Goto, and K.M. Szpara, reprinted fiction by Carlos Hernandez, essays by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Sarah Gailey... read more
