Saini Wins 2023 AC Bose Grant
Kiran Kaur Saini is the recipient of the 2023 A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature, presented by the Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) and DesiLit. The $1,000 grant is given annually to “a South Asian / South Asian diaspora writer developing speculative fiction.”
Saini’s winning piece is “The Color of Conflagration.”
Kiran Kaur Saini is a Punjabi-American writer whose stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Gulf Coast, The Masters Review, and elsewhere, and have been translated into Spanish and selected for Best of the Year anthology inclusion. Her work has been awarded the Henfield Prize for Fiction, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and recommended to the Nebula Award reading list. Her, a 15-year veteran of the Los Angeles film industry, Kiran stepped away from her career in film production at the start of the pandemic to become a full-time caregiver to her 89-year-old mom. She is currently an Associate Editor for Podcastle. For more information, visit https://kirankaursaini.com.
“The Color of Conflagration” extrapolates from present-day movements seeking to flatten the experiences of marginalized communities. It is one meditation on the individual and collective ramifications of the violence of erasure—silencing personal and cultural experience through legislation, technology, and surveillance.
For more information, see the SLF announcement.
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