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SWATHI

DESAI

WRITER
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BIO

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

WRITING

October 2024

"A Girl, Almost Ten,"

Adelaide Literary Magazine Anthology 2024

May 2021

November 2020

October 2020

June 2020

"The Big Men," Prometheus Dreaming

June 2007

2007

"Loneliness," Something That Matters Anthology, Harwood Press

RECOGNITION

RECOGNITION

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

Contact Me

CONTACT

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