Shuchi Saraswat is a writer and editor based in Boston. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Orion, Michigan Quarterly Review, AGNI, Ecotone, Tin House and elsewhere, and she writes about art and trees for the quarterly magazine Arnoldia: The Nature of Trees. Her essay "The Journey Home" received a special mention in Pushcart XLII 2018 and is anthologized in Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism, published by Lookout Books (2019). Her fiction has received support from The Speculative Literature Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Art Omi, The Writers' Room of Boston, Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
For ten years she worked as an independent bookseller in Massachusetts. During that time she founded the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, a reading series focused on stories of migration, the intersection of politics & literature, and works in translation. She is now the senior editor of AGNI.
