Karishma Jobanputra is a writer currently based in London. After earning a BA in Law with Humanities from Warwick University, she received a partial merit scholarship to attend Columbia University as a Master’s student in fiction. During her final year, she received a Chair’s Fellowship, the Dean’s Travel Grant, and taught writing at Gilda’s Club NYC and in the Columbia Summer High School Programme. After graduating, she worked at publishing houses and literary agencies in New York City before moving back to London. Her work was listed for The Disquiet Literary Prize in 2021, 2023, and 2025 and shortlisted for The Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize in 2024. She was also the recipient of the 2021 Eilean Shona Writing Retreat Scholarship, where she returned to teach in 2023. Her work has featured in The Guardian, Columbia Journal, and The Rumpus, among other places. She is currently at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.
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