aparna-sanyalAparna Upadhyaya Sanyal is the author of Circus Folk and Village Freaks, which explores the absurd and the bizarre with witty undertones through tales of transmogrification of men to monsters, animals to women, speaking truths of various lives and their travesties.

Her book has been number one on the Poetry Bestseller List as well as on the New Releases list of Amazon, India. She is a recipient of the 14th Beullah Rose Poetry Prize by Smartish Pace. and was shortlisted for the 2018 Third Coast Fiction Prize. She has been awarded a place in the Hongkong Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology, 2020. Aparna lives with her son, niece, husband and two dog babies in Pune, India.

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