Mridula Koshy

Mridula Koshy

Mridula Susan Koshy (born 1969) is an Indian writer. She lives in New Delhi with her partner and her three children. Her collection of short stories, If It Is Sweet won the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.

Before returning to India, she worked as a trade union and community organiser in the US. Her stories have appeared in literary journals including Wasafiri, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review and Existere, as well as in anthologies in India, the UK and Italy. She is currently working on a novel.

Professional life

She has been a cashier at a Kentucky Fried Chicken, swap-meet sales clerk, backstage dresser at fashion shows, waitress, polisher of silverware, writing adviser, a professional advocate of multiculturalism, a house painter, receptionist at a law firm, collator of tax forms, union organizer and community organizer.

Bibliography

• "Intimations of a Greater Truth" in Existere.
• "Romancing the Koodawallah" in Wasafiri, Summer 2008.
• "Stray Blades of Grass" in The Dalhousie Review, Autumn 2008.
• "Companion" in Prairie Fire.
• "Good Mother" in India Currents, winner first place, Katha 2008. (online text)
• "The Large Girl" in 21 Under Forty from Zubaan and Katha: Short Stories by Indian Women from Saqi, March 2007.
• "When the Child was a Child" in First Proof 3 from Penguin India, April 2008.
• "Jeans" in India from Isbn Edizioni.
• "Same Day" in Tehelka's first fiction special, December 2008 (online text).
• If It Is Sweet, a collection of short stories (Westland/Tranquebar Press, 2009).

Reviews

• Review of "The Large Girl" in the The Hindu Literary Review, July 2007
• Review of "The Large Girl" in India Today, April 2007

Further reading

• Indian English literature
• Women writers

External links

• An Anthology with a Feminist Viewpoint, Video Clip on CNN-IBN, September 2007
• Article on the launch of First Proof 3
• Website of publisher, Westland Books
• Author's blog