Mridula Koshy

Mridula Koshy

Mridula Susan Koshy (born 1969) is an Indian writer. She lives in New Delhi with her partner and her three children. She is the author of a collection of short stories If It Is Sweet. (Westland/Tranquebar, May 2009).

Before returning to India, she worked as a trade union and community organiser in the US. Her stories have appeared in Wasafiri, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review and Existere, as well as in anthologies in India, the UK and Italy. She is currently working on a novel.

Professional life

She has been a cashier at a Kentucky Fried Chicken, swap-meet sales clerk, backstage dresser at fashion shows, waitress, polisher of silverware, writing adviser, a professional advocate of multiculturalism, a house painter, receptionist at a law firm, collator of tax forms, union organizer and community organizer.

Bibliography

• Intimations of a Greater Truth in Existere
• Romancing the Koodawallah in literary journal Wasafiri, Summer 2008
• Stray Blades of Grass in literary journal The Dalhousie Review, Autumn 2008
• Companion in literary journal Prairie Fire
• Good Mother in India Currents, winner first place, Katha 2008 (online text)
• The Large Girl in 21 Under Forty from Zubaan and Katha: Short Stories by Indian Women from Saqi, March 2007
• When the Child was a Child in First Proof 3 from Penguin India, April 2008
• Jeans in India from Isbn Edizioni
• Same Day in Tehelka's first fiction special, December 2008, (online text)

Forthcoming

• If It Is Sweet, a collection of short stories,(Westland/Tranquebar, May 2009)

Reviews

• Review of The Large Girl in the The Hindu Literary Review, July 2007
• Review of The Large Girl in India Today, April 2007

See also

• Indian English literature
• Women writers

External links

• An Anthology with a Feminist Viewpoint, Video Clip on CNN-IBN, September 2007
• Article on the launch of First Proof 3
• Website of publisher, Westland Books
• Author's blog

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