Anushka is a fiction writer based in Mumbai. She holds a BFA in Film Production from NYU, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also received a degree in Gender Studies. She was a regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia in both 2012 and 2017. She was a 2015-16 fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and was awarded the 2017 Stars at Night emerging writer award by American Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Scroll.in, Internazionale, Adda Stories, and Granta. Principles of Prediction, published in November 2020, was her first book.