Dr. Shivani Salil

I’m an MD in Clinical Microbiology from Seth GSMC & KEM Hospital, Mumbai where I later also worked as an Assistant Professor until August 2018. My foray into writing began in 2017 and blogging was my first step towards it. A geographical move in 2018 seemed heaven sent and I am now making full use of this sabbatical to explore where my words take me.

As a child I harboured two dreams- to become a doctor and to pursue literature so I could become a writer. I have loved and lived my first dream and am greedy enough to try living the second one too. I’ve been writing on a broad spectrum of issues, from parenting to health and relationships to philosophy in fiction and non-fiction format, across various platforms like Momspresso, Women’s Web, Mumbai Psychiatry Clinic, The Daily Brunch and SheThePeople. I also have a weekly space on the online portal, The Wonder Women World, called Saturdays With Shivani where I try to connect with my day-to-day observations, experiences and musings hoping that they find their way to the readers.

My first book Hiraeth got published in August 2019. It’s a single author anthology with 24 stories written around partition. I have just completed Masters in Fine Arts, a full-time course in Creative Writing from Hong Kong University (Class of 2020)