SHWETA TANEJA

Shweta Taneja is Head of Partnerships for Locus and handles content syndication and business development globally. She’s an SF author, editor, and communications professional who has been helping non-profits and startups in developing their outreach, partnership, and communication strategies for more than a decade. (LinkedIn)

As an SF author, she’s published novels, short stories, and graphic novels. Two of her novels – critically acclaimed fantasy fiction series Anantya Tantrist Mysteries and a paranormal investigating mystery, How to Steal A Ghost – are being made into films in India.

She was a finalist in the prestigious French award, Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (2020) and has been awarded the Editor’s Choice Award by Kitaab Publishers (2020) for her short story The Daughter That Bleeds. She is a Charles Wallace Writing Fellow (2016) and has given talks at WorldCon (Dublin), Eurocon (Amiens) and the Cartoon Museum (London), among other places. Her work has been translated into French, Romanian, Dutch and Kannada.

When not writing, she wanders in forests, hikes on trails and looks at birds through her binoculars. Find her online at www.shwetawrites.com or with her handle @shwetawrites on most social media.