Anushka Jasraj is a fiction writer from
Mumbai, India. She has twice been selected as Asia Regional Winner for the
Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000 to 5,000 words). The prize is open to citizens of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations aged 18 and over. The Commonwealth Short ...
in 2012 and 2017.
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. 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.
Her work has been published in ''
Scroll.in
''Scroll.in'', simply referred to as ''Scroll'', is an Indian digital news publication owned by the Scroll Media Incorporation. It publishes content in both Hindi and English languages. Founded in 2014, the website and its journalists have won ...
,'' ''Internazionale, Adda Stories,'' ''and'' ''
Granta''.
References
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Living people
Indian short story writers
21st-century Indian women writers
New York University alumni
University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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