About me
Devi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, winner of Crook’s Corner Book Prize for best debut novel set in the South, winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (selected by APALA); selected by The Georgia Center for the Book as a book “All Georgians Should Read,” finalist for the Northern California Book Award. The novel was named by The Washington Post as one of the 50 best books of 2019, Laskar's second novel, Circa, was published in 2022, by Mariner Books. Her third novel, MIDNIGHT, AT THE WAR, will be published by Mariner Books next year. In 2022, USA TODAY named Laskar among "50 AAPI authors" to read and Goop selected CIRCA as its GOOP Book Club pick. Laskar holds degrees from Columbia University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is an alumna of both TheOpEdProject and VONA, among others. In 2017, Finishing Line Press published two poetry chapbooks - and will publish her debut poetry collection, Self-Portraits Ex Machina in November. Also this November, Laskar’s debut spoken-word album will be released by Someplace Called Brooklyn record label.
