Tashan Mehta

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Tashan Mehta is a novelist whose work is interested in form and the fantastical, exploring how a dialogue between the two can offer new and collective ways of seeing the world. She studied at the universities of Warwick and Cambridge. Her debut novel, The Liar's Weave (2017), was shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman's Voice Award, and her second novel, Mad Sisters of Esi (2023), published across the Indian subcontinent, went on to win the Auther Award for Best Novel and the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award for Best Fantasy. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies including Magical Women and the Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction: Volume II, and she was commissioned by London's Barbican Centre to produce the piece On Unknown Things (2021). Beyond her own fiction, Mehta works as a developmental editor and book doctor for Scribe Media and Amazon Publishing, and has held roles as British Council Writer-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University in 2018 and as a mentor at the Bound Residency in India. She has also participated in the Sangam House International Writers' Residency and the CERN IdeaSquare program, reflecting an interest in bridging literary and scientific creative communities.

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Books

• Mad Sisters of Esi (2025) · Mad Sisters of Esi Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 finalist mention)

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