Amita Murray

AMITA MURRAY is a writer based in London, by way of Delhi and California. Her first novel, THE TROUBLE WITH ROSE came out from Harper Collins in 2019, and her short fiction has won the SI Leeds Literary Prize, and has appeared in Wasafiri, SAND Berlin, the Berkeley Fiction Review and others. She's held writerly residencies with Leverhulme/University College London and Plymouth University/Literature Works, and has taught advanced fiction at the University of East Anglia and CityLit London. She...See more

AMITA MURRAY is a writer based in London, by way of Delhi and California. Her first novel, THE TROUBLE WITH ROSE came out from Harper Collins in 2019, and her short fiction has won the SI Leeds Literary Prize, and has appeared in Wasafiri, SAND Berlin, the Berkeley Fiction Review and others. She's held writerly residencies with Leverhulme/University College London and Plymouth University/Literature Works, and has taught advanced fiction at the University of East Anglia and CityLit London. She was named runner-up for the 2022 CRIMEFEST scholarship for authors of color. Find her online @AmitaMurray and www.amitamurray.com. See less