Meher Manda is a writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism, Editor-at-Large at Radix, an award-winning, independent publisher based in Brooklyn, NY, and Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design. Originally from Bombay, India, she is currently based in Providence, RI.

Her debut short story collection, Sicko Girl & Other Women, is forthcoming with Feminist Press in the US and Penguin Random House in India in 2027. A Town Like Every Other is her debut graphic novel forthcoming with Hachette India in 2027. Her poetry collection, Some of Many Women, won the 2026 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize and is forthcoming Fall 2027 with Gaudy Boy Press. She’s the author of the poetry chapbook Busted Models (No, Dear / Small Anchor, 2019) and her work has been published in Catapult, epiphany, The Margins, Los Angeles Review, Wildness, among other places.

As a journalist, she writes at the intersection of culture and politics, with a focus on South Asian works of art. Her criticism can be found at Foreign Policy Mag, The Juggernaut, The Guardian, Bustle, and elsewhere. A Best New Poets and Best of the Net Anthology nominee, she has been featured at Brooklyn Poets, Hyperallergic, The Polis Project, The Hindu, and more. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Rhode Island School of Design, Mercatus Center, The Polis Project and more.

She is the co-parent to two Tuxedo cats named Azad and Noorie.