Saskya Jain

Saskya Jain is a writer based in New Delhi and Berlin. Her new novel, Geeta Rahman at Championship Point, was published by Simon & Schuster India in 2021, and nominated for the prestigious Tata Literature Live Book of the Year Award in 2022. Her debut novel, Fire Under Ash, came out with Random House India in 2014 and was shortlisted for the 2015 Shakti Bhatt Prize. She has an MFA in Fiction from Boston University and her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including Intelligent Life, The Economist, Caravan and The Baffler. She has taught creative writing and literature at Hong Kong University and Grinnell College, and her most recent writing residency was at Hedgebrook. She will be teaching at Dartmouth College in 2024.