Amita Basu

Amita Basu’s fiction appears or is forthcoming in 95+ venues including Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, Harpur Palate, Phoebe, Jelly Bucket, Bamboo Ridge, Funicular, The Bombay Lit Mag, Out of Print, Hammock, and Tasavvur. Her nonfiction appears in Deccan Herald, The Hindu, and The Wire. She’s won the Letter Review Prize (2024), the Ruskin Bond Literary Award (2025), and The Book Review Literary Trust Award (2025). She has a PhD in behavioural sciences and is a consultant at the intersection of climate/conservation and human behaviour. She lives in Auroville, India.