About

Priya Jain is a journalist and fiction writer whose essays and reporting about books and culture have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Salon, Slate, O: the Oprah Magazine, Bust, and several other publications. She holds an MA in journalism from NYU and an MFA in creative writing from Stony Brook University, and has received support from the Tin House Writers Workshop, Gotham Writers, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Whether writing magic-inflected fiction or deeply researched nonfiction, her work reflects her interests in Indian colonial history, motherhood, identity, and family memory. Raised in Atlanta, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two kids.