Saranya Murthi is a writer and audiovisual artist from Bangalore, India. She writes horror and speculative fiction that explores trauma, identity, and the natural world. A graduate in Contemporary Art Practices, she has completed her Master's degree in Creative Writing with distinction at Bath Spa University, where she received the 2024 MA Writer Award, and the Royal Commonwealth Scholarship. She is the winner of the 2025 Deborah Rogers Award. Alongside writing fiction, she also makes industrial electronic music, and obsessively photographs her two cats.