Tashan Mehta is a novelist whose interest lies in form and the fantastical, and how a dialogue between these elements may offer us collective ways of seeing.

Her debut novel, The Liar’s Weave, was shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award. She was part of the Sangam House International Writers’ Residency (India) and was British Council Writer-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University (United Kingdom).

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 will be published in 2021. Recently, she has been invited to CERN IdeaSquare (Switzerland) alongside other writers and scientists to develop stories that can communicate new-age technologies to the public.

Her short story ‘Rulebook for Creating a Universe’ has been published in Magical Women and was shortlisted for the 2020 Toto Funds the Arts Award; two short stories are upcoming in Third Eye Anthology and The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction: Volume II. She is currently working on her next novel.