Anita Harris Satkunananthan is an author, poet and literary academic. Anita writes Gothic fiction, cyberpunk, nerdcore post-apocalyptic fiction, baroque planetary romances and various other forms of hyphenated weird fiction. Anita’s publishing credits include: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Dark, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Uncanny and more.
In her day job, she is a senior lecturer and critical theorist at a public university. Her areas of expertise are as follows: postcolonial Gothic, ecoGothic in relation to the Capitolocene in particular, spatiotemporality, hauntology, poetics (particularly the mise-en-abyme), and memory studies.
Anita considers herself, apart from being a published professional author and poet, a multi-medium creative. She is also a visual artist who has been paid for commissioned works in the past, and designs hypertext games and IF narratives. Her varied interests include but are by no means limited to: music (musicianship, composition, music theory, musicology, performance), languages and language learning, books/reading, chess, nature, visual arts, photography (both digital and film/SLR), and cooking. She also loves reading, writing and editing fairytales/fairytale scholarship. She does not claim to be particularly good in any of the above interests/pursuits, but they do enrich her life.
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan is an author, poet and literary academic who exists in a perpetual state of unheimlich. Anita writes Gothic fiction, baroque planetary romances and space operas, mythic fantasies and various other forms of hyphenated weird fiction. Anita’s publishing credits include: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, The Dark, Beneath Ceaseless Skies etc. Anita is a 2016 Rhysling Poetry Award nominee. Her debut novel Watermyth (2024) was longlisted for the BSFA Award for Best Novel and received the National University of Malaysia’s Anugerah Bitara award for Arts and Creativity (Creative Writing).
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