Tashan Mehta

Tashan Mehta’s Mad Sisters of Esi was published by HarperCollins India in 2023 and won the AutHer Awards for Best Novel. Her debut novel, The Liar’s Weave, was published in 2017 and shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award. Her short fiction has been anthologized in Magical Women, the Gollancz Anthology of South Asian Science Fiction: Volume II and Solarpunk Creatures. She was fellow at the 2015 and 2021 Sangam House International Writers’ Residency, India, and writer-in-residence at Anglia Ruskin University, UK, and has mentored at numerous writing residencies. She studied at the universities of Warwick and Cambridge, and currently resides in Mumbai.