SWATHI
DESAI
WRITER
BIO
Swathi Desai was born in India and raised in California. A graduate of the Wharton School and FIDM San Francisco, she has worked as a designer and creative director in the fashion and home accessories industry since the mid 1990s. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.
WRITING
April 2025
May 2021
November 2020
October 2020
June 2020
"The Big Men," Prometheus Dreaming
June 2007
2007
"Loneliness," Something That Matters Anthology, Harwood Press
RECOGNITION
Summer 2025
"Something You Should Know"
Fiction Winner, New Ohio Review NORward Prize, Issue 36
September 2024
"A Girl, Almost Ten,"
Fiction Finalist, Adelaide Literary Magazine Contest
March 2023
"An Offering to the Gods," Novel Excerpt
Fiction Finalist, Disquiet International Literary Contest
March 2022
"Different Wells Within," Novel Excerpt
Fiction Longlist, Disquiet International Literary Contest
November 2020
"I Am Not Your Indian,"
Creative Nonfiction Shortlist, Hippocampus Magazine, Remember in November Contest
November 2020
"Lady: Part 1,"
Short Fiction Semifinalist, Chestnut Review,
Stubborn Writers Contest