Anuja Varghese

Anuja Varghese is a Canadian writer from Hamilton, Ontario, whose debut short story collection ''Chrysalis'' was published in 2023.

Varghese's writing has been published in literary magazines such as ''The Malahat Review'', ''The Fiddlehead'' and ''Plenitude'', and has been anthologized in ''When Other People Saw Us'', ''They Saw the Dead'' and ''Queer Little Nightmares''. Her short story "Throwing Salt" was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2021.

''Chrysalis'' won the 2023 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT literature, and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2023 Governor General's Awards. Provided by Wikipedia