BrownSky - South Asian Writers/Creators
A place for folks who write from their South Asian perspective, celebrate all things Indian and the third culture peeps making stories people can relate to. Chai IS tea 🤎
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@jasmineaziz.bsky.social
@sravaniwrites.bsky.social
South Asian Writer! Scifi and fantasy! Mythology and fairytale nerd! Also kidlit! Future bookshop owner! sravani rhymes w/ harmony. She/her
@sujawrites.bsky.social
Author & Doctor. YA thriller WHEN MIMI WENT MISSING coming out Nov 19 2024 from Soho Teen. SCBWI, ITW, CrimeWoC, SINC. Book nerd supporting LGBTQ, women's rights, environmentalism, BIPOC, diversity, equality. Michigander.
@hramsaroop.bsky.social
ha-lay-na • She/her • Freelance editor, book reviewer and bioarchaeologist • Assistant Editor @augursociety.bsky.social • Copy Editor for Muslim Literary Festival • First Reader @khoreo.bsky.social 🍉🇬🇾🇨🇦📚👩🏾🔬✨ https://linktr.ee/hramsaroop
@safiyabintsaleh.bsky.social
writing books that could be called thinkpieces · designer, artist, and certified cat enthusiast · we are not free till we are all free 🍉
@kumail.bsky.social
@azad-ashim.bsky.social
Writerly Poet and Director of @the87press.bsky.social. Based in SW London. Free Palestine.
@vijayiyer.bsky.social
music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // latest albums: Defiant Life (ECM, 2025) Compassion (ECM 2024), Trouble (BMOP/sound 2024), Love in Exile (Verve 2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
@mujib.bsky.social
Award-winning poet, lingerie model, triathlon champ. On the Blueskies since 1997. [Disclaimer: Opinions are my own, not Victoria’s Secret’s. Reskeets = Engorgements.] യോ! Posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lxus6rnqtgvcis7rhlruzj77/feed/aaaigec5ossmm
@rahulabhatia.bsky.social
Journalist. Author of The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy
@zigzackly.bsky.social
Developing writer. Aspiring artist. https://zigzackly.blogspot.com Caretaker: @caferati.bsky.social, @poetryinparks.bsky.social, @thegoaproject.bsky.social He/him/they/them
@amitava.bsky.social
Writer. Novels include My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.
@samanthsubramanian.bsky.social
Words in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and others. Books on fish, Sri Lanka, and JBS Haldane. Newsletter: http://samanth.substack.com
@veenavenugopal.bsky.social
India Newsletter Editor @FT Author - Independence Day: A People’s History - Aug ‘22. The Mother-in-Law (2014); Would You Like Some Bread With That Book (2012). Views are personal.
@cinthyaanand.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, accumulator of useless facts. I run a library and study space called Reading Room in Kozhikode, Kerala.
@meherm.bsky.social
Writer @ BBC Travel, CNN Travel, Guardian, Food52, Saveur. Birthing a book along the way.
@laaleen.bsky.social
I help people around the world live their best life in Dubai 🏝️ Licensed luxury property advisor and modern matchmaker. Keen on referrals, collabs, podcasts. https://socialleague.live
@vikramchandra.bsky.social
I make stories and software. Books: Geek Sublime, Sacred Games, Love and Longing in Bombay, Red Earth and Pouring Rain. More information at vikramchandra.com.
@themodsisyphus.bsky.social
Settler. Religion, media, & culture scholar. Writing on digital hate & extremism, ritual, & Hindu/tva publics. Animal lover, anti-caste, anti-racist, anti-hate, anti-fascist. No response to trolls. RP ⍯ Endorsement; BLM, FREE PALESTINE all posts personal
@amberinhuq.bsky.social
Children's illustrator. Drawer of pictures, colourer of spaces, writer of moments. Rep'd by The Plum Agency She/Her
@ronakkapadia.bsky.social
Author: INSURGENT AESTHETICS | Writing: BREATHING IN THE BROWN QUEER COMMONS | Curator: https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/ | art/abolition/war/security/empire/futurism/healing/disability/justice | Pisces ♓️🐟
@mmir08.bsky.social
🚨PR Freelancer | 📝 Creative | ✍🏽 Book Reviewer | 😉Nerd |✨ Works in Publishing | 📖 2023 Shorlist Judge The Diverse Book Awards | 🌎 2020 Deputy Chair of SYP London https://linktr.ee/maleeha.mir8
@kalwantbhopal.bsky.social
Professor of Education and Social Justice, Director Centre for Research on Race and Education, University of Birmingham. Interests: race, gender, class, equity, social justice. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/education/bhopal-kalwant
@rajanithindiath.bsky.social
Storyteller/Editor (she/her) Love: whimsy, kindness, rabbit holes, Discworld, life, the universe & everything #diversevoices #writer #sff #fantasy #books #comics #graphicnovels #animation #writingcommunity 🪐📚💙 https://rajanithindiath.wixsite.com/my-site-1
@burgi.bsky.social
Loves books. Writes poems. She/her For everything else: https://linktr.ee/burgitree Banner photo: partial view of the shadow of a cast-iron chair and a plant on flagstones. Profile pic: w woman (ponytail, red jacket) @ microphone, reading from a sheet
@theleonamaple.bsky.social
I am your sensitivity reader & DEI product specialist 💛 | Biz: TheLeonaMaple@gmail.com | Performer, streamer, Desi af, demi-pan queer, cat gal, ADHD spoonie theleonamaple.carrd.co
@ishmeetnagpal.bsky.social
Film Critic Poet Creative Writing Coach Editor (Former) Publisher Mother to Mira 🐕
@sharanyamanivannan.bsky.social
❁ Writer and illustrator. Ilankai Tamil, Malaysia-raised, India-based ❁ My books include "Incantations Over Water", "The High Priestess Never Marries" and "The Queen of Jasmine Country" ❁ IG/Threads: sharanya_manivannan ❁ www.sharanyamanivannan.in
@silicasun.bsky.social
Author - Poet Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
@jayashree-megan.bsky.social
🇮🇳🇸🇪Desi+Swedish💖💜💙 (she/her) 18yrs as a bookseller (Borders, B&N, Red Ballon) #booksellerJaya 📚 Reader & writer of fantasy, romance, & horror. Painter of animals & goddesses. 📍Minneapolis MN 📖2025: 7/30
@varshawrites86.bsky.social
Writer. Words in: Exposition Review, Moss Puppy Magazine, Five Minute Lit, and others
@ronita.bsky.social
Gave myself permission to be a poet; Love books, mountains and tea; working at the intersection of process documentation and qualitative research in India
@m-ixedbag.bsky.social
Writer, Mom, Polyglot. 아포방포. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, Subs Editor @Smokelong. Words: BSF'23 @hexliterary,@tinymolecules @barrelhouse @BoothAJournal @wigleaf Published work here: linktr.ee/hemanataraju
@hanakhalique.bsky.social
Writer, VO Artist & Teacher from London, UK Subs Editor @ SmokeLong Quarterly Words in Litro, Token, Best Small Fictions 22, 100 Voices, Spread the Word, Arachne Press, Dahlia Books, Word Factory, &more W: www.farhanakhalique.com Tw & IG: @HanaKhalique
@coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social
Writer, reader, editor, cat convert, spoonie links to stories at https://coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/ Flash collection at Reflex Press https://www.reflex.press/product/families-and-other-natural-disasters/
@swethaamit.bsky.social
Author of chapbooks- Cotton Candy from the sky by @bottlecap Press, Mango pickle in summer by Alien Buddha Press. Fiction @thirtywest @havehad @doorisajar @MaudlinHouse @Flashficmag & others https://swethaamit.com/ writers grotto
@ninamiller.bsky.social
Physician, Fencer and Creative Wigleaf top 50 https://ninamillerwrites.com/ Hybrids/Photos @ Cutbow Quarterly and Raw Lit Prose/Poetry @ Sci-Fi Shorts, Bright Flash, Five South, Roi Fainéant, Five Minutes and more.
@srilatha91.bsky.social
Writer, long distance mom,distracted wife, doglover. Pushcart nom 2025. BFFA long listed. Recipes http://rasaala.com https://linktr.ee/srilatha.rajagopal
@sudhab.bsky.social
Writer: Nose Ornaments, Runner-up Bath NIF '24; Things I Can't Tell Amma (Ad Hoc, UK, '21). Pubs: Fictive Dream, Doric Lit, CRAFT,SmokeLong, Fractured Best Microfic, Best Small Fic, Wigleaf Top 50. BathFlash HC/Shortlisted; Series Editor: Wigleaf Top 50
@sundeepbraich.bsky.social
Writer | Speaker Sundeep, an Indian name, translates to "bringer of light" in Latin from Sanskrit. With one foot in life & the other in death, I draw insights from the liminal space, weaving narratives that bridge both realms.💎☀️ Instagram @sundeepbraich
@pratibha.bsky.social
Writer. Director Film & TV (feature docs: My Name Is Andrea, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth - T.V.- Queen Sugar, Law&Order: SVU pratibhaparmar.com
@sonalikolhatkar.bsky.social
Journalist, Author, Senior Editor YesMagazine, Host/Exec. Prod of Rising Up With Sonali, Author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice, Senior Correspondent, Independent Media Inst & The Zero Hour, former Astrophysicist, mom of 2.
@sonipaul.bsky.social
journalist, writer, producer ⭐ developing a podcast with support from California Humanities ⭐ teaching radio and podcasting with Uncuffed, a training program & podcast in California prisons. More info 👇🏾 https://sonipaul.me/ https://www.weareuncuffed.org
@sugi.bsky.social
Writer. BROTHERLESS NIGHT: http://randomhousebooks.com/books/57844/
@yashicadutt.bsky.social
Dalit Journalist, author Coming Out as Dalit, words in NYT, Atlantic, Foreign Policy Mag. Revised version of Coming Out as Dalit by Beacon Press out Spring 2024, NYC. https://www.yashicadutt.com
@kandasamy.bsky.social
Poet & Novelist ¦ Fellow, Royal Society of Literature ¦ Winner PEN Hermann Kesten Prize '22 ¦ Shortlisted Womens Prize ¦ Fellow IWP, Iowa ¦ PhD ¦ தமிழ்
@arunkundnani.bsky.social
I write about race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism. More at: kundnani.org
@neelanjanab.bsky.social
Writer. Managing Editor Kaya Press. Part-time faculty too many places. Thinker. Parent. Human.
@tazzystar.bsky.social
Series of Desi-Muslim-words-arts-voter-things. http://tazzystar.me | http://tazzystar.substack.com | https://www.etsy.com/shop/TazzyStarShop
@mimimondal.bsky.social
nebula & hugo awards-nominated indian sff writer. #RadiantCitadel #manivarsha. rep: @luciennediver.
@hariprasad.bsky.social
serial typo maker. Researches ME/SA politics and political violence. mainly here for da memes. Apparently, a prominent person. Usual disclaimers
@historylad.bsky.social
Kashmiri, researcher, JNU. Focus on history and culture. Anti-capitalist plotter, anti-colonial saboteur. Let's talk about liberation.
@justshoba.bsky.social
Endocrinologist. 🇨🇦 🇮🇳 Daughter, doctor, dancer, dreamer. Interested in endocrinology and medical education. Fledgling fiction writer.
@nitajk.bsky.social
Author of The Hawa Mahal Murders, PILF prize-winner, Journalist, Hand Reader.📍Pune India. Passionately interested in World Affairs, Health, Environment, Books. Next novel soon to be published. Working on the third book. https://www.nitajatarkulkarni.com
@usharaman.bsky.social
Writer and academic; study and teach media, dabble in fiction and poetry. Just published my first novel.
@divyaghelani.bsky.social
WRITER| Literature & Creative Writing CHASE PhD Scholar @uealdc & Editorial placement @wasafirimag | Researcher www.strikeatimperial.net | Rep @abirfellows Writer Website: www.divyaghelani.com
@nsomniasaum.bsky.social
Independent scholar. Anticaste savarna. Abolitionist. Lives with horses, swords, overwhelming rage, and a traumatic brain injury. https://linktr.ee/SaumyaAryaHaas 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #LandBack #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
@dalitdiva.bsky.social
I am a Dalit artist, author, technologist, and organizer, dedicated to advancing social justice and amplifying marginalized voices. I am futurist and a lover of speculative fiction. I am also a buddhist and a dhamma practioner. www.dalitdiva.com
@arsinghwrites.bsky.social
🪔- Just a brown girl, writing her first epic fantasy novel! 📈: Drafting mode - round 3
@mrnarci.bsky.social
he/him, 35. film | cats | chelsea fc 🔵 | bombay and goa | local trains | books | language | history | personal is political header from Gaman (1978) https://letterboxd.com/MrNarci/ https://twitter.com/MrNarci
@cheruwritesalot.bsky.social
(she/her) Your next favourite author. Find my writing --> https://linktr.ee/cherylrebello
@hadiyahsama.bsky.social
writer! MA & BA in english & creative writing. | she/her | ☆nothing is forever☆ Times/Chicken House LL '23 (header art by @ pidgeydraws tumblr) https://hadiyahsama.co.uk/
@wordswithnima.bsky.social
they/she. South-Asian writer, poet, and editor. Words in Ellipsis Zine, MoonPark Review, Capsule Stories, Kahini Quarterly, The Sea Letter, & others. Freelance services: https://wordswithnima.carrd.co Published pieces: https://linktr.ee/purnimabala
@puja-words.bsky.social
Writer | Freelance music & film | Fiction & CNF sometimes | Bridport Prize 2024 shortlisted | Words in The Quietus/Screensphere/ Filmhounds Mag & Ors | Lawyer | Brummie Londoner
@bhavyareads.bsky.social
20, she/they. indian. reader. writer. visually impaired. chronically ill. disabled. #AltText and #WebAccessibility advocate. ignore typos. @b_isnt_reading on Twitter. Header description- an image of the sapphic flag
@soumiroy1.bsky.social
Author. Artist. Repped by @antoinight.bsky.social and @natalielakosil.bsky.social at @lookingglasslit.bsky.social These Bodies Ain't Broken (Page Street 2025) Best of the Net Nominee https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-soumi
@ariannasidd.bsky.social
Associate Agent at FinePrint rep: Penelope Burns at Gelfman Schneider
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Flash fiction/cnf only. Best Microfic 2024. Trauma writing workshops. Yeah Nah Reading Series. Will probably rearrange your dishwasher. 🇦🇺🇲🇾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ sumitrasingam.squarespace.com CHAPBOOK Are You Willing w Amy Marques: https://bottlecap.press/products/willing
@mathangiwrites.bsky.social
they/them • 27 • Tamil • anti-AI • 🍉 • minors dni • 📚 1/25 all opinions are my own
@meerashar.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Australian National University ll South Asia, History, Postcolonialism, Empire ll Mum to two boys: one canine & one human, knitter, storyteller ll
@kamrank.bsky.social
Director of MOSAIC research at the University of Birmingham | Borders, CVE, surveillance and multilingualism | Security, Citizenship Testing, Race and Language
@savangupta.bsky.social
Here under protest, but not going to support budget Lex Luthor. Presenter at 300+ live events. Operations & Marketing Analyst by day, Improv Comic and TTRPG writer by night. Editor in Chief at The Unconventional. Bane of Karens. Unapologetically swarthy.
@afshandl.bsky.social
writer of TV, plays & poetry - WGGB rep for Manchester - co-chair of board at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester - represented by MMB Creative - funny (my mum says so) - - all views & typos my own - 🍉 she/they
@sonesone2.bsky.social
Author Symptoms of a Heartbreak, How Maya Got Fierce, Tiny Pretty Things, The Rumor Game | Screenwriter | Journalist | Senior Editor, Scholastic | traveler @ishqinabackpack | #adhd creative | #Chaitime | mama
@monatewari.com
Author of BURN THE SEA (Spring 2026) (she/her) ✍️ SFF Writer 🦷 Pediatric Dentist (not practicing) ❤️ Mom of 2 😷 MCAS 🏳️🌈 Ally ☕ Consumer of too much tea | www.monatewari.com | rep: Jennifer Azantian (@jenazantian.bsky.social)
@nailamoonsi.bsky.social
Writer + artist who loves cats. This is a penname, btw. (Header and icon by me.) ☔️ 30↑ ☔️ they/them 🇧🇩🇺🇸🏳️🌈 main project: BLUE HORIZON! Both webtoons + novels. (hubs: https://linktr.ee/nailamoonsi + contact: nailamoonsi@proton.me)
@mariyakeeka.bsky.social
writer | yappologist | indoor cat | 24 | words floating around in cosmic horror monthly, the bitchin' kitsch, livina press, etc https://mariyakeeka.carrd.co/
@quillmatiq.com
🗣️ People, Not Platforms 👨🏻💻 Engineering Leader, Writer 🌐 Building: @anew.social ✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink 📸🎧☕: @pixels.quillmatiq.com
@aristarshower.bsky.social
SFF writer, TTRPG designer & writer. Co founder of Illicit Peanuts Currently working on my SFF genre bending trilogy and a bunch of games Find my games https://illicitpeanuts.itch.io/
@saroful.bsky.social
Screenwriter I Creative Producer I Amateur Boxer https://writers.coverfly.com/profile/acharyasaro
@jainofalltrades.bsky.social
✍🏽 Get in my head at #JainOfAllTrades 🔥 Agneya of Salt & Flame SFF trilogy (WIP) 🎬 Screenwriter | Indo-American stories 👩🏽 Baat Cheet: #SouthAsian community #scriptsky #writersky #authorsky 🌳 https://linktr.ee/sandhyanyc
@bydhiyanah.bsky.social
(she/they) Artist, Writer 📍M'sia • 🌈☪️🕉️♾️🎨 • No a/i 💚 Folio: https://bydhiyanah.carrd.co/ 🌸 Bookings: https://forms.gle/xbdSuuQRwwfAMEmP6 🎨 Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/bydhiyanah/ 🍯 Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/bydhiyanah
@chitgrrl.bsky.social
Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
@megnc.bsky.social
Thought dump on media, pop culture, news, motherhood, and life happenings. Lover of the outdoors. Always have snacks. #AAPI 📍marketing/ biz ops in Portland, OR 🌲🧑🧒 She/her
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
Journalist, CNN London. Previously writing at The Independent, The Economist and TIME Magazine.
@alexanderglass.bsky.social
Writing, reading, musicking and pondering. Fix your hearts or die.
@rukman.bsky.social
Temporary obsessions | Opinions personal | Words: Apex, Khoreo, Small Wonders & more | repped by @keiralekseii.bsky.social | Fiction editor @Otherside rukmanragas.com
@shwetaadhyam.bsky.social