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Shruti Swamy


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The winner of two O. Henry Awards, Shruti Swamy's work has appeared in The Paris Review, the Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. In 2012, she was Vassar College's 50th W.K. Rose Fellow, and has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, and Hedgebrook.

She is a Kundiman fiction fellow, a 2017 – 2018 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and a recipient of a 2018 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. Her story collection A House Is a Body was published in August 2020 from Algonquin Books, and her novel The Archer is forthcoming. ...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 2,259 ratings · 533 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Always Coming Home
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A House Is a Body
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The Archer
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“Sometimes, when you lose - when people die - it is very hard to make tears. You feel like you want to make tears but something inside you stops them and they press your chest. Like something sitting on it.”
― Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
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“The house is a body, a body houses souls.”
― Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
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“was trying on aspects, rushed with ancestors, and so changed like the shifting of a kaleidoscope’s colors from angle to angle, mood to mood.”
― Shruti Swamy, The Archer
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