Anjali Sachdeva
Anjali Sachdeva is an American fiction writer[1]. Her short story collection, All the Names They Used for God, was the winner of the 2019 Chautauqua Prize. It was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, Refinery29, and BookRiot, longlisted for the Story Prize, and chosen as the 2018 Fiction Book of the Year by the Reading Women podcast. The New York Times Book Review called the collection "strange and wonderful," and Roxane Gay called it, "One of the best collections I’ve ever read. Every single story is a standout." Her fiction has been published in McSweeney's, Lightspeed, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications, and featured on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast.
Sachdeva worked for six years at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, where she was Director of Educational Programs. She is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Investing in Professional Artists grant from the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation. She currently teaches at Chatham University.
She has hiked through the backcountry of Canada, Iceland, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States, and spent much of her childhood reading fantasy novels and waiting to be whisked away to an alternate universe. Instead, she lives in Pittsburgh, which is pretty wonderful as far as places in this universe go.
Awards
- All the Names They Used for God was named a must-read book for 2018 by Elle and AM New York, and a top read by Harper's Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, The Christian Science Monitor, Bustle, Shondaland, Popsugar, Sada El-Balad and Refinery29
- Winner of the 2019 Chautauqua Prize, All the Names They Used for God
- Chosen as one of National Public Radio's Best Books of 2018, All the Names They Used for God
- Winner of the Reading Women Podcast's 2018 Award for Fiction, All the Names They Used for God
- Longlisted for the Story Prize, All the Names They Used for God
Books
- All the Names They Used for God (Dial Press, 2019)
Selected Publications
- "Anything You Might Want," LitHub
- "To the Father Paused Under the Tree," Off Assignment
- "The Poor, Dead Soldiers," Better Magazine
References
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