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 at a public university.
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, travel, walking/dérives, swimming, nature, visual arts, photography (both digital and film/SLR), design, balcony gardening 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.
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