Asha Thanki is the author of the novel A Thousand Times Before,

winner of the 2025 Balcones Prize, finalist for Publishing Triangle’s award for Debut Fiction, and named one of the best books of 2024 by NPR and the Boston Globe.

A Kundiman fellow, Asha has received support from Sewanee Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Speculative Literature Foundation. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota.

They are represented by Stephanie Delman and Danya Kukafka at Trellis Literary Management.

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