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Asha Thanki

Asha Thanki
Asha Thanki is an essayist and fiction writer. Asha’s work has appeared in The Southern Review, Platypus Press' wildness, The Common, Catapult, Hyphen, and more. She is a Kundiman fellow and has received support through scholarships and grants from Sewanee Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Speculative Literature Foundation. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. A Thousand Times Before is her debut novel.


Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing

Considering the Publishing Industry's Problematic Ideas About Non-American Writers
July 10, 2024  By Asha Thanki
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