Sanjna N. Singh

Born in Mumbai Sanjna N. Singh came to the U.S. for college graduating from Bryn Mawr with degrees in Political Science and French. She studied cinema and photography in Paris and subsequently worked for five years at HBO in New York. Her independent documentary “Out of Status ” which followed Muslim families detained or deported after 9/11 was nominated for the Amnesty DOEN award for Human Rights and aired on Channel 4 UK in 2007. Sanjna has directed shows for the Discovery Channel Vh1 the Travel Channel Logo and others. Her essays have been published in the New York Times the Guardian, Vox, Bitch, Tricycle and other magazines and she was awarded numerous grants and residencies including a Fiction prize from the Speculative Literature Foundation in 2021. Sanjna serves on the board of Siddhartha\'s Intent India and was a script advisor on Khyentse Norbu's film Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache. She divides her time between the U.S. and India