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Amita Basu’s fiction appears or is forthcoming in 90+ venues including Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, Harpur Palate, Phoebe, Jelly Bucket, Bamboo Ridge, and Funicular. Her debut, At Play and Other Stories (Bridge House Press), released in 2025. She’s won the Letter Review Prize (2024), the Ruskin Bond Literary Award (2025), and Kelp's Shelter in Place contest (2020), and been shortlisted by the Coppice Prize (2025) and contests at Phoebe (2024) and Five Minute Lit (2024). She’s been nominated for two Pushcarts, a Best of the Net, and a Best Small Fictions Prize. She’s Interviews Editor at Mean Pepper Vine and Hemlock Journal and Contributing Editor at Fairfield ScribesMICRO. She works at a climate action thinktank, where she uses her behavioural sciences PhD to design and implement interventions to encourage low-carbon lifestyles. She lives in Auroville, loves dogs, and fears snakes – though, so far, snakes have shown disappointingly zero interest in killing her. |
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"Odd Couples: Mr. Polyamorous and Dr. Asexual," winner of the Letter Review Short Story Prize.
Flash story "Shiver" in River & South Review, winner of the Ruskin Bond Award.
Speculative short story “The Why and the How” featured in Bewildering Stories’ Editors’ Choice Awards, voted best prose published that quarter.
Interview with Amita about her soft horror/magic realist short story “The Hole” featured in Novel Noctule. Magic realist short story “Re:Birth” published in several venues, most recently Caustic Frolic. |
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A goat atop a wall, navigating between embedded glass shards intended to deter climbers, en route to a tree with tasty leaves.
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Moss.
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Pine roots stretching just under the earth like haunted fingers.
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