Eshani Surya is a writer living in Philadelphia interested in what a body encapsulates and how it can be defined. 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 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.