Vandana Singh

Vandana Singh
Born	New Delhi, India
Occupation	Short story writer, Physics instructor
Period	2000s–present
Genre	Fantasy, Science fiction, Children's Literature
Notable works	"Delhi", "The Wife", Younguncle Comes to Town
Website
users.rcn.com/singhvan/

Vandana Singh is an Indian science fiction writer. She currently works at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.^[1]

Works

Short Fiction

• The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet and other stories (ISBN 9788189884048) includes two previously unpublished stories: "Conservation Laws" and "Infinities" (March 2009)
• "The Room on the Roof" in the anthology Polyphony (September 2002)
• "The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet" in the anthology Trampoline (August 2003)
• "The Wife" in the anthology Polyphony (Volume 3)

Collected in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (17)

• "Three Tales from Sky River: Myths for a Starfaring Age" in Strange Horizons (2004)

honorable mention in Year's Best Science Fiction (22) and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (18)

• "Delhi" in the anthology So Long Been Dreaming (May 2004)

collected in Year's Best Science Fiction (22)

• "Thirst" in The 3rd Alternative (Winter 2004)

Longlisted for the British Fantasy Award

Honorable mention for Year's Best Science Fiction (22) and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (18)

Collected in the anthology The Inner Line: Stories by Indian Women

• "The Tetrahedron" in Internova (2005)

Shortlisted for the Carl Brandon Parallax Award

Honorable mention in Year's Best Science Fiction (23)

• "The Sign in the Window" in the chapbook series Rabid Transit (May 2005)
• "Hunger" in the anthology Interfictions (April 2007)
• "Life-pod" in Foundation - The International Review of Science Fiction (August 2007)
• "Of Love and Other Monsters," a novella published in the Aqueduct Press's Conversation Pieces Series (October 2007)
• "Oblivion: A Journey" in the anthology Clockwork Phoenix (Summer 2008)

collected in Year's Best SF 14

Children's Fiction

• Younguncle Comes to Town (March 2004)
• Younguncle in the Himalayas

Poetry

• "A Portrait of the Artist" in Strange Horizons (2003)

2nd place in 2004 Rhysling Prise for speculative poetry (long poem category)

• "Syllables of Old Lore" in the anthology Mythic (2006)
• "The Choices of Leaves" in the anthology Mythic (2006)

References

Notes

1. New Faculty 2007 - 2008

Articles

• "Younguncle comes to town". The Hindu. 2005-01-07. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
• "First Look: Literature". Tehelka. 2007-12-15. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
• "In the Himalayas". The Hindu. 2005-08-26. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
• "Fantasy seeker". The Hindu. 2005-02-13. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
• "Normal, boring". The Telegraph. 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
• "In cyber world". The Hindu. 2008-02-22. Retrieved 2008-05-15.

External links

• An Interview with Vandana Singh by Geoffrey H. Goodwin at Bookslut