Eshani Surya is a disabled, brown writer interested in how we love while navigating the complications, trauma, and radical self-acceptance inherent to marginalization. Her novel, RAVISHING, will be published by Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic.
Eshani is a 2022 Asian Women Writer’s Workshop mentee, a 2022 Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop scholarship recipient, a 2021 Mae Fellowship recipient and a 2021 Semi-Finalist for Key West Literary Seminar’s Marianne Russo Award for Novel In-Progress. Her fiction and essays can be read in The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Catapult, Joyland, the anthology, Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere.
She is a board member at Blue Stoop, a literary non-profit in Philadelphia, the city where she now lives. She also holds an MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she also taught undergraduates. Previously she was a Flash Editor at Split Lip Magazine,
Eshani is represented by Stephanie Delman & Dana Murphy at Trellis Literary Management.