Indrapramit Das

Indrapramit Das (also known as Indra Das) is an Indian science fiction, fantasy, and cross-genre writer, critic, and editor from Kolkata. 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.''

Das is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar and a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop. He 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.

His debut novel ''The Devourers'' won the 29th Lambda Award in the SF/F/Horror category. The novel was shortlisted for 2016 Crawford Award, 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.

In 2023, Subterranean Press published Das' novella ''The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar'' in both ebook and limited edition hard copy formats. ''Locus'' praised the novella, describing it as "part coming-of-age tale, part love letter to fantasy, part family mystery, and part elegantly understated fable of identity." The book won a 2024 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella.

Das edited and wrote the introduction for the 2024 anthology ''Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art'' from MIT Press. Provided by Wikipedia