Divya Ghelani

Divya Ghelani was born in Gujarat and grew up in Loughborough, Leicestershire. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and an MPhil in Literary Studies from the University of Hong Kong. She has published stories and articles in Wasafiri Magazine, Comma Press, BBC Radio 4, Litro Magazine, and more. Divya has led creative writing workshops for The Reader Berlin, Writing East Midlands, The Word Factory, Comma Press, among others.

Divya is working on her first novel, Night School. It was shortlisted for PRH WriteNow, longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers' Award, longlisted for The Bath Novel Award, twice longlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize, and received an honorary mention in the Harry Bowling Prize for New Writing. The opening of Night School was selected for Issue 1 of The Good Journal by Nikesh Shukla. She lives in Berlin.