Bio

Anushka Nagarmath is a writer and poet from Mumbai. She primarily writes about childhood, familial dynamics, and queerness and loves experimenting with form in her work, frequently drawing inspiration from audiovisual media and pop culture. Her work has previously appeared in The Margins, How To Share The World: A Feminist Anthology, Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, Lucent Dreaming, and Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry, among others. She is a Best of the Net nominee, and she was shortlisted for the 2025 Toto Award for Creative Writing in English and among the Top 30 winners of the 2019 Wingword Poetry Prize. Her work has received support through residencies at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center.

Project

At Faberllull she will work on a collection of interconnected short stories in the format of test papers, exploring themes of childhood, motherhood, and familial trauma and violence. The test papers will range from subjects like Mathematics, Physics, Biology, and Chemistry to English, Social Sciences and Logic. The constraints allow for the usage of an objective voice and visual elements to explore multiple subjective perspectives on the interlinked threads of generational trauma.