Natasha Rai
Natasha Rai’s debut novel, An Onslaught of Light, was longlisted for the 2017 Richell Prize, 2018 KYD Unpublished Manuscript award, and highly commended for the Ultimo Press/Westwords 2020 Prize.
BottomNatasha Rai’s debut novel, An Onslaught of Light, was longlisted for the 2017 Richell Prize, 2018 KYD Unpublished Manuscript award, and highly commended for the Ultimo Press/Westwords 2020 Prize.
BottomNatasha, an Indian-Australian woman, was born in India, and migrated to Australia with her parents at the age of ten. She lived in the UK for several years as an adult, and the influence of three homes features in her writing.
Her work appeared in Australia’s first #MeToo anthology, Enough anthology about gender violence, Mascara Literary Review, Overland, Verity La, and StylusLit. Her first novel, An Onslaught of Light, longlisted for the 2017 Richell Prize, 2018 KYD Unpublished Manuscript award, and highly commended for the Ultimo Press/Westwords 2020 Prize, is published by Pantera Press.
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