Mimi Mondal (she/they) is a writer and editor of the fictitious. Her fiction has been nominated twice for the Nebula Award: in 2020 with her novelette His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light, and in 2022 for ancient-Bengal-inspired setting titled Shankhabhumi and the adventure “In the Mists of Manivarsha” in the Dungeons & Dragons anthology Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel. In 2018 she received nominations for the Hugo, British Fantasy and Ditmar Awards, and was awarded the Locus Award for Non-fiction for co-editing the anthology Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler with Alexandra Pierce.

Among Mimi’s current creative projects is a longer series of D&D-compatible characters and locations inspired by Bengal and elsewhere in South Asia, which she publishes monthly on her Patreon.  A full list of her previous publications can be found here.

Mimi was the recipient of the A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Fiction in 2022; the Immigrant Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2017; the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship for the Clarion West Writing Workshop in 2015; a Commonwealth Shared Scholarship at University of Stirling in 2013; and the Poetry with Prakriti Prize in 2010. 

EDITORIAL WORK

Mimi currently serves as the fiction editor of Stellar Beacon magazine, a founding board member of Plurality University Network, and a juror for the Crawford Award and the Imagine 2200 short fiction contest by Grist. Her previous roles include the Poetry and Reprint Editor of Uncanny Magazine, a three-times-Hugo-Award-winning magazine of science fiction and fantasy, and an editor at Penguin Random House India. 

Mimi has 15+ years of editorial experience in India, the UK and the US, the majority of it in science fiction and fantasy literature, including works that won and were nominated for major awards. She is  open to receiving freelance copy editing, proofreading and authenticity reading projects, but is not currently doing developmental editing. If you are here for editorial services, please go to this link for details.

2 thoughts on “”

  1. Hello Mimi
    I loved your story about trapeze artist Binu in His Footsteps, …
    Can’t wait to read more about these characters .
    Huge fan of your writing !

  2. Hello Mimi, I discovered your writing- fiction and non-fiction pieces only two days ago. I also watched one of your interviews yesterday on youtube. Firstly, I loved your language. You are a wonderful storyteller. It also provoked me and helped me to think about politics and problems of character and world building in our society. As an savarna filmmaker engaged in anti-caste issues over a decade this is extremely valuable to me and there are very few clear articulations, particularly by writers and none by fiction filmmakers. I have made documentaries and am not a successful filmmaker and have no fiction work yet to my credit ( I am 55 :) . But fiction or non-fiction- I find resonance in your writing. Thank you. Gouri Patwardhan

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