Eshani Surya is the author of Ravishing, out in November 2025 from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic. A disabled South Asian writer, Eshani is a 2025 Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch, a 2023 Finalist for the A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature, a 2022 Asian Women Writer’s Workshop mentee, a 2022 Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop scholarship recipient, and a 2021 Mae Fellowship recipient. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, [PANK], Catapult, and Joyland, among others, and she holds an MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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