Anukrti Upadhyay

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Anukrti has post-graduate degrees in Literature and Management, and a graduate degree in Law. She has written a doctoral thesis on human relationships in Hindi short stories of the post-1960s period. She writes fiction and poetry in both English and Hindi. Her English works, twin novellas Daura and Bhaunri, novel Kintsugi and short story collection titled The Blue Women, have all been published by the 4th Estate imprint of HarperCollins in India and have been nominated for awards. She was awarded the Sushila Devi Award for the best work of fiction written by a woman author in 2020 for Kintsugi. Her Hindi works, a short story collection, Japani Sarai, and novel Neena Aunty, have been published by Rajpal and Sons; a novel, Kunjlatika aur Kamalkalika, and a short story collection, Belly dancer tatha anya kahaaniyaan, are out next year from Rajkamal and Westland, respectively.

Her works have been collected in anthologies and have appeared in Scroll.in, Kitaab.sg, The Bombay Review, The Bangalore Review, The Bilingual Window, Tint Journal, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Open Magazine, South Parade, Janakipul, Kathadesh, Hans, Nikat, Pakhi, Vanmaali, Vagarth, Tadbhav and several Hindi publications.

She has been invited as a writer-in-residence to Ahmedabad University and as a visiting scholar to Middlebury College, USA and as visiting faculty to Ashoka University.

Anukrti has worked for global investment banks, Goldman Sachs and UBS, in senior positions and now works pro bono. She divides her time between Mumbai and the rest of the world, and when not counting trees and birds, she can be found ingratiating herself with every child, cat and dog in the vicinity.

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