Saskya Jain

Biography

Saskya Jain grew up in New Delhi. Her first novel, Fire Under Ash (2014), was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt Prize. Her second novel, Geeta Rahman at Championship Point (2021), was nominated for the Times of India AutHer Award and the Tata Literature Live Book of the Year Award. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Intelligent Life, The Economist,The Caravan, The Baffler and DIE ZEIT, among others. She has taught creative writing and literature at Hong Kong University, Grinnell College and Dartmouth College, and is currently teaching at Bard College Berlin. She was the 2024 Dorothea Schlegel Artist in Residence at Freie Universität Berlin.