Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of Vegan Serendib (Serendib Press), A Feast of Serendib (Mascot Books), Bodies in Motion (HarperCollins), The Stars Change (Circlet Press), and twelve other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards, a USA Today Notable Book, and has been translated into six languages. The Stars Change was a finalist for the Lambda, Rainbow, and Bisexual Book Awards. She’s recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose, has received a Locus Award and a Breaking Barriers Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women, and has been Guest of Honor at numerous conventions.
Mohanraj’s other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards anthology series, the SF/F anthology Survivor (Lethe Press), Invisible 3 (co-edited with Jim C. Hines), stories at Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Asimov's, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.
Mohanraj founded the Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine, Strange Horizons, and served for ten issues as editor-in-chief of Jaggery, a South Asian literary journal (jaggerylit.com), which she continues to publish (2013-present). Mohanraj has taught at the Clarion SF/F workshop, and is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org), and directs the Kriti Festival of Art and Literature (kritifestival.org). She has served on the futurist boards of the XPrize and Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, and currently serves on the board of the futurist org, Plurality University. She has been elected to local office twice, serving on the Oak Park library board from 2018-2021, and currently serves on the school board for Oak Park River Forest High School.
Mohanraj lives in a creaky old Victorian in Oak Park, just outside Chicago, with her partner, Kevin, two children, and assorted animals. www.maryannemohanraj.com
