Lavanya Sankaran
Lavanya Sankaran is the author of the internationally acclaimed short story collection 'The Red Carpet', which spent two years on the best-seller lists.
Her debut novel 'The Hope Factory', hit the Number 1 spot on Amazon India and was also selected by Amazon UK as a Top Pick. Lavanya's writing is published in over 15 countries and has won several awards, including Barnes and Noble's Discover New Writers, and Poets and Writers' Best First Fiction Award. Her opinion pieces and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and The Atlantic, among others.
Lavanya sponsors the annual Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for fiction writers at the Sangam Writers Residency. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and has lived between New York City and Bangalore, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.
Her debut novel 'The Hope Factory', hit the Number 1 spot on Amazon India and was also selected by Amazon UK as a Top Pick. Lavanya's writing is published in over 15 countries and has won several awards, including Barnes and Noble's Discover New Writers, and Poets and Writers' Best First Fiction Award. Her opinion pieces and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and The Atlantic, among others.
Lavanya sponsors the annual Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for fiction writers at the Sangam Writers Residency. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and has lived between New York City and Bangalore, where she now lives with her husband and daughter.
