Discipline: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing
Based In: Brooklyn, NY
Year at Millay: 2025
Awards/Honors: Fellow, Periplus Fellowship, Periplus Collective (2025); Fellow, The Margins Fellowship, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, New York, NY (2025); Longlist, Granum Prize, Granum Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Participant, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (2024, 2023); Participant, Sewanee Writers' Conference, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN (2024); Award Winner, Katharine Bakeless Nason Award in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (2023); Nominee, The Pushcart Prize Prize (2023).
Website: http://swatisudarsan.com
Swati Sudarsan (she/they) is working on her first novel, titled This Mirror is a Knife, which was longlisted for the 2024 Granum Prize. She is a 2025 AAWW Margins Fellow and a 2025 Periplus Fellow. Swati has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Kweli Journal, and more. In addition, she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.