Shuchi Saraswat is a writer and editor based in Boston. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Orion, Michigan Quarterly Review, AGNI, Ecotone, and elsewhere, and have received special mentions in The Best American Essays and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Her fiction has received support from the Speculative Literature Foundation, Art Omi, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, among others; in 2024, her novel-in-progress received a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation and was shortlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize.
For ten years she worked as a bookseller in Massachusetts, and during that time she founded the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, a reading series focused on stories of migration, the intersection of politics & literature, and works in translation. She’s now the senior editor of the literary magazine, AGNI.
Shuchi is represented by Erika Stevens at Salky Literary Management.
