Shruti Swamy

Shruti Swamy is the author of the novel The Archer (2021) and the story collection A House Is a Body (2020), both from Algonquin. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, AFAR Magazine, and the New York Times. Recipient of the 2024 Rome Prize fellowship in literature, the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Elizabeth George Foundation, and Vassar College, Swamy lives in San Francisco. 

Shruti Swamy

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Apples

He was born with the [light of god] in his eyes. Born in the caul blue until his first breath, but calm as the midwife had ever seen. They said […]

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