Anahita Karthik is a fiction writer from Pune, currently pursuing a Master’s in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge, specializing in screenwriting. As an engineering grad in India, who now writes for audiences in the US, UK, and India, she occupies a rarified niche: an Indian based in India with a US agent, and books distributed across three continents.  Karthik’s publishing journey started as a teenager trying to publish fantasy novels with small presses in India. At 23, her fiction projects include her most recent vampire love story “A Very Bloody Kalayanam” in the My Big Fat Desi Wedding anthology in 2024, her upcoming bisexual immigrant teen romance Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar slated for release in 2026, and a colonial historical romance that is currently being shopped to presses. She brings desi young adult lenses to different genres, from contemporary rom-coms and historical fiction to horror and the…

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