Shruti Swamy

A House Is a Body, published by Algonquin in 2020, gathered the short fiction Shruti Swamy had been placing in the Paris Review, McSweeney's and elsewhere over the preceding decade. The stories move between India and California and return often to mothers, daughters, illness and what a household does to the body living in it. Swamy has taken two O. Henry Awards. The collection reached the final list for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and was longlisted for the Story Prize. She held a Steinbeck Fellowship at San José State University in 2017 and 2018, is a Kundiman fiction fellow, and received a prose fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2022. A novel, The Archer, followed in 2021. She lives in San Francisco.