Swati Sudarsan (she/they)

Swati is a writer from the Midwest, now based in Brooklyn.

She is the recipient of the 2023 Bread Loaf Conference Katharine Bakeless Nason Award in Fiction. She has also received support from Tin House, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Kenyon Review, Kweli Journal, and more.

She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She was a 2023 finalist of the Frontier Global Poetry Prize, a runner-up of the So to Speak contest in fiction and a winner of the Planet Detroit National Poetry Month contest.

Swati is currently at work on her first novel, a literary queer campus novel that explores the effects of lineage and diaspora on the queer coming-of-age experience.

In the margins of her life, she makes space for running, cat-tending, and being generally very emotional.