Bio
Shweta Narayan is currently eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction or fantasy writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy was published in a professional publication in the previous two years.
Shweta was born in India and lived in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, and Scotland before moving to California. She's a liminal sort of person with an ongoing fascination with shapeshifters and other figures who live on the edges, and with fairy tales and folk tales from all over. She primarily writes short fiction, some of which has recently appeared or is forthcoming in magazines like Strange Horizons and Realms of Fantasy and anthologies like Clockwork Phoenix 3 and The Beastly Bride, but also writes poetry, prose poetry, and in-between pieces best classified as "thingies".
Shweta was the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship recipient at the 2007 Clarion workshop, and two of her poems have been nominated for the 2010 Rhysling award. Her story Nira and I is on the James Tiptree, Jr. award long list for 2009.
Bibliography
Campbell-qualifying fiction
Pishaach, The Beastly Bride (eds. Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow), forthcoming
Sultana Lena's Gift, Realms of Fantasy, forthcoming
Charms, Strange Horizons, August 24 2009
Daya and Dharma, GUD Magazine, issue 4 (Spring 2009)
Nira and I, Strange Horizons, March 16th 2009