About

The Requisite Bio:

Sheba Karim writes literary and young adult fiction.  She was born and raised in Catskill, NY, where she never saw Rip Van Winkle but frequently crossed the bridge that bore his name. She is a graduate of New York University  School of Law and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.  Her young adult novel, Skunk Girl, was published in the United States, Denmark, India, Italy and  Sweden.  Her fiction has appeared in 580 Split, Asia Literary Review, Barn Owl Review, EGO, Kartika Review, Shenandoah, South Asian Review, Time Out Delhi and in several published and forthcoming anthologies in the United States and India, including Cornered, Electric Feather and Venus Fly Trap.  Two of her short stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  She was a 2009-2010 Fulbright-Nehru Scholar.  She is currently working on a historical fiction novel set in 13th century India and editing the second Tranquebar Anthology of South Asian Literary Erotica for Tranquebar Press.  She is represented by Ayesha Pande Literary.

Sheba also blogs about cheap eats in New York at www.cheaptoboot.com.  The longest she has been a vegetarian is 6 weeks, at which point she started dreaming of hamburgers.

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