Sanjena Sathian is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Gold Diggers, which was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by The Washington Post and a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, Electric Literature, and Amazon. It was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and won the Townsend Prize for Fiction. She is cowriting the screen adaptation with Mindy Kaling’s production company, Kaling International. Her short fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Boulevard, One Story, and more. Her nonfiction can be found in The New York Times, The Drift, The Yale Review, NewYorker.com, and Lit Hub, among other outlets. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught fiction at the University of Iowa, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and Emory University.
