Tashan Mehta

Tashan Mehta is a novelist whose interest lies in form and the fantastical. Her debut novel, The Liar's Weave, was shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman's Voice Award. She was part of the 2015 and 2021 Sangam House International Writers' Residency (India) and was British Council Writer-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University (United Kingdom) in 2018. In 2019, she participated in Fieldwork 0.2, a multidisciplinary residency that explored alternative infrastructures for the future. She was commissioned by the Barbican (London) to create an artefact that captures the essence of the experience; On Unknown Things was printed for limited release in 2021. Her short story 'Rulebook for Creating a Universe' has been published in Magical Women and PodCastle, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Toto Funds the Arts Award. Her work features in the Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction: Vol II.