Mimi Mondal

Education Mondal attended Nava Nalanda High School, Calcutta International School, and Jadavpur University, receiving a B.A. in English in 2010 and an M.A. in English in 2012. She received the 2013 Commonwealth Shared Scholarship in Publishing Studies and attended the University of Stirling, Scotland, from which she received a Master of Letters (MLitt) in Publishing Studies in 2015.

In 2015, Mondal attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, US, where she was the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholar.

"I feel like many of us are writing the stories we’d like to see! I would really like to see regional mythology, folklore from India being used in stories.... I would also like to see more traditional performances, and actually uncensored historical research reflected in stories, because so much of Indian history that we know is curated to match the idea of post-British nationalism." Her work has appeared in such venues as Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, The Book Smugglers, Daily Science Fiction, Kindle Magazine, Muse India, Podcastle, and Scroll.

Luminescent Threads Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler is a collection of works by more than 40 writers, issued in honor of the 70th anniversary of Octavia E. Butler's birth. The anthology was co-edited by Mondal and Alexandra Pierce.

Luminescent Threads was nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award in the category of Best Related Work, It was nominated for a British Fantasy Award. It was also nominated for a 2018 William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review, an Australian Science Fiction Award, being eligible for its Australian editor Pierce and Australian publisher Twelfth Planet Press. Mondal and the other writers on Journeys through the Radiant Citadel were nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in March 2023.

In 2022, Mondal joined Asmadi Games as a game writer.

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Work Result

Locus Award Non-fiction

2019 Nebula Award Best Novelette "His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" 2022

"Twenty-Nine Days Before Remaking the World" 2023 Nebula Award Best Game Writing Journeys through the Radiant Citadel This Sullied Earth, Our Home (2015) The Trees of My Youth Grew Tall (2018) His Footsteps, through Darkness and Light (2019)

Other stories So It Was Foretold (2018) Learning to Swim (2017) And the Final Frontier is Heaven (2015) Things to Do after They’re Gone (2015) The Sea Sings at Night (2015)

Anthology

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler with Alexandra Pierce (Twelfth Planet Press, August 2017; ) On Translating the Stories Yet Unwritten: A Dalit Perspective from India (2017) Characters Are Not A Coloring Book Or, Why the Black Hermione is a Poor Apology for the Ingrained Racism of Harry Potter (2016)