CMD Welcomes Anuja Varghese

Anuja Varghese

Anuja Varghese is a Pushcart-nominated writer, a Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity alumni, and the Fiction Editor for the Ex-Puritan.

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Jesse Valvasori

We are thrilled to welcome Anuja Varghese to CookeMcDermid!

Anuja Varghese (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer whose work appears in The Malahat Review, Hobart, and The Fiddlehead, as well as the Best Women's Erotica Volume 6 and Queer Little Nightmares anthologies, among others. Her work has been recognized in the PRISM International Short Fiction Contest, the Pigeon Pages Fiction Contest, and the Alice Munro Festival Short Story Competition. She is a Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity alumni and the Fiction Editor for the Ex-Puritan Magazine.

Anuja’s debut short story collection CHRYSALIS (House of Anansi, 2023) explores South Asian diaspora experience through a feminist, speculative lens. It has been shortlisted for the Writers Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. Her recently completed novel combines elements of fantasy, romance, and historical fiction, centering brown queerness, heroism, desire, and power.

Anuja lives in Hamilton, ON. Find her on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok (@anuja_v), or by visiting her website anujavarghese.com.

Anuja is represented by Hana El Niwairi.