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Tashan Mehta is the author of Mad Sisters of Esi, which was shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and was one of The Washington Post's Best SFF Novels of 2025. Her first novel, The Liar’s Weave, was shortlisted for the inaugural Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award.
She was fellow at the 2015 and 2021 Sangam House International Writers’ Residency (India) and writer-in-residence at Anglia Ruskin University (UK).
Using myth, fictional scholarship, alchemy, folktales, and animism, Mehta creates a quantum form of storytelling that follows the relationship between two sets of sisters, generations and worlds apart. Mad Sisters of Esi builds upon itself, layer by rich narrative layer, weaving together an all-encompassing saga of grief, love, legacy, and creation.
– 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, Shortlist
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