Damyanti Biswas
Damyanti Biswas is an author, blogger, animal-lover, spiritualist.
Her Indian debut literary crime novel You Beneath Your Skin was an Amazon bestseller, and optioned for the screens by Endemol Shine. Her next, The Blue Bar was a #1 new release on Amazon and a #1 Bestseller on Amazon USA. Publisher's Weekly, in their Starred review called it 'an unforgettable, searing portrait of marginalized people struggling for survival'.
Her work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Ambit, Pembroke Review, Griffith review, Flash Fiction Online, among many others in the US, UK, and Australia. She also serves as one of the editors of the The Forge literary magazine.
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