Photo credit: Rory O’Bryen
Preti Taneja
Preti Taneja is the author of the novel We That Are Young (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018) and the nonfiction book Aftermath (Transit Books, 2021). Her work has received the Desmond Elliott Prize, a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures, and The Gordon Burn Prize. A MacDowell Fellow in Fiction, she serves on the Board of Trustees at English PEN. She lives and works in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. (updated 10/2026)
With Shuchi Saraswat and Ru Freeman, she coedited Proximity: An AGNI Portfolio of Writing and Art by Women of Color.
Read Taneja’s essay, “Land in Our Names,” on the work of artist Jasleen Kaur.
AGNI has published the following work:
Introduction
Editor’s Note by Shuchi Saraswat, Ru Freeman, and Preti Taneja
The Artist’s Mark
Art Feature by Preti Taneja