I’m so honored to have won the 2025 Sushila Devi Award for LOKA. This is wonderfully unexpected news to finish out the year! 

This was not an easy book for me to finish due to my struggles with Long Covid and ME/CFS, and the main character also has a debilitating chronic illness, so it’s especially meaningful to have it recognized.

The jurors had some very kind words to say:

Created within the genre of speculative fiction, the characters retain human traits of empathy and compassion even within a s...