
Shinie Antony is the author of Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith, a novella that won the Wise Owl Prize for fiction 2025, was longlisted for AutHer Awards and has been translated into Bangla by The Antonym Collections. Her other novellas include The Girl Who Couldn’t Love and Can’t, longlisted for the Crossword Award. She has compiled the anthologies Hell Hath No Fury, Boo, Why We Don’t Talk, An Unsuitable Woman, and co-edited The Art of Holding On, Letting Go, where many authors come together to examine grief via objects left behind. Her first book was a collection of short stories, Barefoot and Pregnant, on dysfunctional motherhood; one of her stories, A Dog’s Death, won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia prize in 2002.




