Indrapramit Das (also known as Indra Das) is an Indian science fiction, fantasy, and cross-genre writer, critic, and editor from Kolkata. Retrieved 2026-05-29. His fiction has appeared in several publications including Clarkesworld Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, and has been widely anthologized in collections including Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction.

Background and education Das is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar and a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop. Das received a BA in Creative Writing from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he also studied film. Retrieved 2026-05-29. He later completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Das is a former consulting editor of speculative fiction for Indian publisher Juggernaut Books.

Career His debut novel, The Devourers, won the 29th Lambda Literary Award in the SF/F/Horror category. The novel was shortlisted for the 2016 Crawford Award and the 2017 Otherwise Award. Retrieved 2026-05-29. It was included in the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List and was nominated for the Shakti Bhatt Prize and the Tata Live! Literature First Book Award in India. The Devourers was originally published in 2015 by Penguin Books India and received North American distribution by Del Rey the following year.

Das has written about books, comics, TV, and film for publications the include Slant Magazine, Vogue India, Elle India, Strange Horizons, and Vancouver Weekly. Retrieved 2026-05-29. Retrieved 2026-05-29. Retrieved 2026-05-29.

His short story "Kali_Na" won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction and made the honor list for the 2019 Parallax Award given by the Carl Brandon Society. Retrieved 2026-05-29. Retrieved 2026-05-29. His novelette "Breaking Water" was a finalist for the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award.

In 2023, Subterranean Press published his novella, The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, in both ebook and limited edition hard copy formats. Locus praised the novella, describing it as "a gorgeously written novella which is part coming-of-age tale, part love letter to fantasy, part family mystery, and part elegantly understated fable of identity." The book won the 2024 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella. It was a finalist for the 2024 Locus Award. Retrieved 2026-05-29.

Das edited and wrote the introduction for the 2024 anthology Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art from MIT Press. The book is part of MIT Press's annual science fiction anthology series, Twelve Tomorrows. The anthology was named one of "The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024" by Esquire. Retrieved 2026-06-17. It was a finalist for the 2025 Ignyte Award for Anthology/Collected Works. Retrieved 2026-06-17.

Bibliography

Novels

Novellas

Short fiction "Kolkata Sea", Flash Fiction Online (2010) "Looking the Lopai in the Eyes", Redstone Science Fiction (2010) "The Widow and the Xir", Apex Magazine (2011) "Weep for Day", Asimov's Science Fiction (2012), reprinted in Clarkesworld (2015) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "Muo-Ka's Child", Clarkesworld (2012) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "Sita's Descent" (2012) "The Runner of n-Vamana" (2013) "Karina Who Kissed Spacetime", Apex Magazine (2013) "The Little Begum", Steampunk World (2014) "A Moon for the Unborn", Strange Horizons (2014) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "The Muses of Shuyedan-18", Asimov's Science Fiction (2015) "Psychopomp", Interfictions Online (2015) "Breaking Water", Tor.com (2016) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "The Worldless", Lightspeed Magazine (2017) (also appeared as: "Variant: The Wordless") "The Moon Is Not a Battlefield", Infinity Wars (2017) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "The Shadow We Cast Through Time", New Suns (2019) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "The Song Between Worlds", Future Tense Fiction (2019) "A Shade of Dusk" (2019) "Kali_Na", The Mythic Dream (2019) "Incarnate" (2020) "The Road from Kothali", Verve Magazine (2020) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "You Will Survive This Night", Come Sit With Us By The Fire, Volume 2 (2021) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "A Necessary Being" (2021) "Here Comes Your Man", Tasavvur (2022) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds", Tor.com (2022) Retrieved 2026-05-29. "As Wayward Sisters, Hand in Hand", The Book of Witches (2023) Retrieved 2026-05-29.

Anthology (as editor)

References

External links Writing Global Sci-Fi: White Bread, Brown Toast by Indrapramit Das - Tor.com Interview at Mithila Review