Shuchi Saraswat

Shuchi Saraswat is a writer and editor based in Boston. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Boston Art Review, Ecotone, Coffee House Writers’ Project, Tin House online, Arrowsmith, and elsewhere. Her essay “The Journey Home” received a special mention in Pushcart XLII 2018 and is anthologized in Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism, published by Lookout Books (2019). She received the Gulliver Travel Research Grant from The Speculative Literature Foundation and fellowships and scholarships to Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Writers Omi at Ledig House, The Writers’ Room of Boston, Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

For ten years she worked as an independent bookseller in Massachusetts. During that time she founded The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, a reading series focused on stories of migration, the intersection of politics and literature, and works in translation. She’s now the assistant editor and a co-nonfiction editor at the literary journal AGNI.

Shuchi served as a judge for the 2021 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.