Saskya Jain

Saskya Jain grew up in New Delhi and is the author of two novels, Fire Under Ash (Penguin Random House), shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt Prize, and Geeta Rahman at Championship Point (Simon & Schuster), nominated for the Times of India AutHer Award and the Tata Literature Live Book of the Year Award. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Intelligent Life, The Economist, The Caravan, The Baffler and DIE ZEIT, among others. Educated at Berlin’s Freie Universität and Columbia University, New York, she holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. She has taught creative writing and literature at Hong Kong University, Grinnell College and Dartmouth College, and has held writing residencies at Hedgebrook and Art Omi (USA), Sangam House (India) and Toji Cultural Centre (South Korea). She was the 2024 Dorothea Schlegel Artist in Residence at Freie Universität Berlin.

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Saskya Jain
Creative Writing 
s.jain[at]berlin.bard.edu