Kiran
Kiran and Minka

Press

Writing Craft Tidbits

Awards and Nominations

  • Nominee, Premios Ignotus award in Spain (“Coiffeur Seven”)
  • Winner, A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Fiction
  • Longlist, Forge Literary Flash Fiction Competition (“The Year of the Humming Turban”)
  • Winner, The Henfield Prize for Fiction
  • Winner, Best Feature (written by), International Women’s Film Festival, Miami (The Lesson)
  • Nominee, Pushcart Prize, chosen by Joyce Carol Oates (“A Girl Like Elsie”)
  • Quarter-Finalist, Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project
  • Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future

Anthologized in

  • Best Small Fictions 2023 (“More Than a Lion”)
  • Lightning Strikes: An Anthology of Flash Fiction by Fifty Indian Writers (“Your Tomorrow Clothes”)
  • Terra Mágica (“A Cor da Conflagração”/“The Color of Conflagration”, translated from English into Portuguese)

Grants

  • Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholar (Clarion West)
  • United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County
  • Speculative Literature Foundation
  • Fresh Voices Award (Odyssey Writing Workshop)
  • North Carolina Arts Council

Artist’s Residency Fellowships

  • Blue Mountain Center
  • Wildacres
  • Djerassi Resident Artists Program
  • Headlands Center for the Arts

Reviews

Random Reader Comments

"Saini can write." --Don Frisch, Grand Rapids Press "So fucking strange, but oddly relatable." --James McEwen "Wow! Where did THIS come from?" --Tim Ackerly "Chillingly beautiful. I held my breath reading it." --Sylvia Crosbie "Sheesh!" --Stuart LeBlanc So fucking strange, but oddly relatable. I held my breath reading it. Wow! Where did this come from? Chillingly beautiful. Sheesh!