Eshani Surya is a chronically ill South Asian writer living in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and is a 2025 Publisher's Weekly Writer to Watch, a 2023 Finalist for the A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature, a 2022 Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop scholarship recipient, and a 2021 Mae Fellowship recipient. Her debut novel is "Ravishing," which shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it reduces us to the worst parts of ourselves in search of the right kind of beautiful.
Communities: LGBTQ+, Asian American, Neurodivergent, Person with a Disability
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