About

I write literary fantasy where ancient Indian cosmology meets modern life, where the divine turns up in city streets and family kitchens.

I'm an introvert who grew up in a vibrant, festival-like culture. Indian storytelling gave me the foundation.

Dharma, karma, duty.

The weight of choices across generations.

When I started writing, I found myself drawn to a different kind of storytelling.

The stillness of Studio Ghibli.

The silence of a shrine.

The space between things, where meaning lives.

My debut novel, Divine Lies: The Unwilling Immortal, grew out of that tension, between myth and modern life, restraint and desire, power and consent. It follows a modern woman with an ordinary life, a job, a routine she built herself, who is pulled into an old cosmology she never asked for. It's a story about becoming immortal without surrendering the human.

Alongside the fiction, I write essays on Substack at What We Carry, about inheritance, ritual, and the quieter side of Indian culture. One of them, "The Mark on the Skin," appears in Indie Lit Journal, Volume 2.

By Lamplight, my newsletter, gathers letters about the story, the characters, the world. The choices I made, the ones I unmade, the decisions that shaped Divine Lies: The Unwilling Immortal but never show up on the page. If you want to see how the book was built, that's where I'd love to have you.

—Sienna