Asha Thanki is the author of the novel A Thousand Times Before, forthcoming 2024 from Viking Books.

An essayist and fiction writer, Asha’s work has appeared in The Southern Review, Platypus Press’ wildness, The Common, Catapult, Hyphen, and more. She is the winner of the 2019 Arkansas International Emerging Writers Prize and fourth prizewinner of Zoetrope: All Story’s 2020 Short Fiction Competition. A Kundiman fellow, Asha has received a Randall Kenan Scholarship at Sewanee Writers Conference, Fiction Scholarship with Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature (Speculative Literature Foundation). She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota.

She is represented by Stephanie Delman and Danya Kukafka at Trellis Literary Management.