Asha Thanki

Asha Thanki is an essayist and fiction writer based in Minneapolis. Her work has appeared in the Southern Review, Platypus Press’ wildness, the Common, Catapult, the Nashville Review, Hyphen, and more. She is the winner of the 2019 Arkansas International’s Emerging Writers Prize, judged by Sigrid Nunez, and fourth prizewinner of Zoetrope: All Story’s 2020 Short Fiction Competition. Her work has received support from the Speculative Literature Foundation, Tin House, and more. She has been nominated for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American series, and she was a finalist for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net 2020. Asha is currently a candidate for the University of Minnesota’s MFA. in creative writing, with a concentration in fiction, and a graduate minor in public policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Prior, she attended Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she studied International Political Economy and International Development.