Inderjeet Mani

Inderjeet Mani is an Indian-born former US professor and scientist now based mainly in Thailand. His first novel Toxic Spirits (now in its second edition) is based on his experiences volunteering with hill-tribes in Thailand’s Golden Triangle. In addition to his new novel The Conquest of Kailash, Mani has also published six other books and nearly fifty shorter literary pieces published in literary magazines and anthologies as well as newspapers, along with a
hundred-odd scientific papers. Mani’s scholarly books include The Imagined Moment, on the computing of time in narrative, and other titles are from Oxford and MIT Press. His awards include the (WIND Magazine) Short Fiction award, (Story South) Million Writers Award Notable Stories, Reader’s Choice Award, (Glimmer Train) Very Short Fiction Award, (The Common Room) Story of the Month, and a finalist for the Pan Literary Award and for the
(Nimrod) Katherine Anne Porter Prize.