Sanjana Thakur is a writer from Mumbai, India. She is the 2024 winner of the international Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Southampton Review. Her poetry has been supported by the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Booth Magazine, and Pigeon Pages. Sanjana is a graduate of UT-Austin’s New Writers Project and Wellesley College.
It’s nice of the Baptists to let us use this space––though of course, we know they’re trying to convert us. We’re okay with that. It feels good to be wooed.