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Amita Basu

Bewildering Stories biography

Amita Basu’s fiction appears or is forthcoming in 90+ venues including Notre Dame Review, The Penn Review, Bamboo Ridge, Harpur Palate, Faultline, Jelly Bucket, Phoebe, and Funicular. Her debut, At Play and Other Stories (Bridge House Press), released in 2025. She’s won the Letter Review Prize and the Ruskin Bond Prize, and been shortlisted for the Coppice Prize and contests at Phoebe and Five Minute Lit. She lives in Auroville, India and works at a climate action thinktank. Social media:

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Bewildering Stories bibliography

Prose Fiction
Shrimps and Gunpowder
Zeus and His Things
The Revolutionaries
Last Day of Freedom
Mirror
The Why and the How
Timeshare

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