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'''Anushka Jasraj''' is a fiction writer from [[Mumbai, India]]. She has twice been selected as Asia Regional Winner for the [[Commonwealth Short Story Prize]] in 2012 and 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/cssp-2017/|title=The 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize {{!}} Commonwealth Writers|date=2017-05-22|work=Commonwealth Writers|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Life==
She holds a BFA in film production from [[New York University]] and a MFA in creative writing from the New Writers Project as well as a MA in women's and gender studies from the [[University of Texas-Austin]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://granta.com/contributor/anushka-jasraj/|title=Anushka Jasraj|work=Granta Magazine|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}}</ref> She was a 2015–16 fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and was awarded the 2017 Stars at Night emerging writer award by American Short Fiction.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://americanshortfiction.org/tag/anushka-jasraj/|title=Anushka Jasraj|work=American Short Fiction|access-date=2018-06-24|language=en-US}}</ref>

Her work has been published in ''[[Scroll.in]],''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://scroll.in/article/733035/gv-desanis-journal-the-manuscript-diaries-of-the-first-modern-indian-writer-in-english|title=GV Desani’s journal: The manuscript diaries of the first modern Indian writer in English|last=Jasraj|first=Anushka|work=Scroll.in|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}}</ref> ''Internazionale, Adda Stories,''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.addastories.org/circus/|title=Circus - adda|date=2016-06-20|work=adda|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}}</ref> ''and'' ''[[Granta]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://granta.com/contributor/anushka-jasraj/|title=Anushka Jasraj|work=Granta Magazine|access-date=2018-03-10|language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | title=The Short Story Interview: Anushka Jasraj | website=| TSS Publishing | url=https://www.theshortstory.co.uk/the-short-story-interview-anushka-jasraj/ | ref={{sfnref | | TSS Publishing}} | access-date=2018-03-10}}

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