About Amita Basu
Amita Basu’s fiction appears in 90+ venues including
The Penn Review,
The Bombay Literary Magazine, and
Indian Literature. She’s interviews editor at
MeanPepperVine and contributing editor at
Fairfield Scribes Micro. Her debut collection,
At Play and Other Stories, Bridge House Press, was released in 2025. She’s won the
Letter Review Prize, the Ruskin Bond Emerging Writers Award, and Kelp's Shelter in Place contest, and been shortlisted by the Coppice Prize and contests at
Phoebe and
Five Minute Lit. She lives in Auroville, works at a climate action thinktank, and blogs at
amitabasu.com.
