Sheena Kalayil’s third novel, The Wild Wind, is based on her nomadic upbringing, shuttling between India and Zambia.  Her fourth novel, The Others, was longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her debut novel, The Bureau of Second Chances, won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best First Novel (2018) and was shortlisted that year for the Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place.

She has worked all over the world, including in Nepal, Mozambique, Tunisia and Venezuela. Since 2002, she has lived in the UK, and now teaches at the University of Manchester.