Reshma Ruia

Reshma Ruia is an award winning author and poet. Her first novel, Something Black in the Lentil Soup, was described in the Sunday Times as ‘a gem of straight-faced comedy.’ Her second novel manuscript, A Mouthful of Silence, was shortlisted for the 2014 SI Leeds Literary Prize. Her short stories and poems have appeared in various British and International anthologies and magazines and commissioned for BBC Radio 4.

Her debut collection of poetry, A Dinner Party in the Home Counties, published by Skylark Publishing won the 2019 Debut Word Masala Award.

Her short story collection, Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness came out in October 2021 and was shortlisted for the 2o22 Eastern Eye ACTA Awards.

Her new novel, Still Lives published by Renard Press in UK and Speaking Tiger in India won the 2023 Diverse Books Readers' Choice Award.

She is the co-founder of The Whole Kahani-a writers’ collective of British South Asian writers, fiction editor of Jaggery magazine and book reviewer for Words of Colour.

Born in India and brought up in Italy, her writing portrays the inherent preoccupations of those who possess a multiple sense of belonging.