
Photo by Paul Stonehouse
Tania Malik was born in New Delhi and raised in India, Africa, and the Middle East. She was educated in boarding schools in the foothills of the Himalayas and graduated from the University of Delhi with a degree in Geography. She has had a varied career in the travel marketing and non-profit industries. Her first novel THREE BARGAINS (W.W. Norton) received a Publishers Weekly starred review and a Booklist starred review. Her work has appeared in Calyx Journal, the Baltimore Review, Bound Off, Salon.com and other publications. She divides her time between San Francisco's Bay Area and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Literary Agent
Nicki Richesin
Dunow, Carlson & Lerner
27 W. 20th St., Suite 1107
New York, NY 10011
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NEWS + EVENTS
Sonoma County Writers Camp
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Guest Presenter
Litquake 2022, San Francisco's Literary Festival
Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 12:45 pm
Panel: Place as Portal to Prose
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Part of Litquake's Craft & Creative Life series
Setting is intrinsic to story and we often hear the phrase “place as character” but what does that really mean to writers from different forms or genre? The discussion will explore what part place plays in their writing practice, how they utilize place as a way to form narratives in their respective writing styles, what resources they tap into, and how they infuse their settings with personality.
Read: CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (Winter/Spring , Vol. 29:3)
Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley, CA
Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 3:00pm
An Interview with Farsickness Journal
Four Questions on Farsickness is an interview series with creative writers for whom place is essential to their work.
An Interview with San Jose Mercury News
Tania Malik, author of 'Three Bargains,' has a foot in two different worlds
By Georgia Rowe
Correspondent
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
Q: How did you come up with your characters Madan and Avtaar Singh?
A: The idea for Three Bargains came to me 10 years... (click for more)
Full of strong characters and surprising scenes, @taniamalik's #ThreeBargains is an impressive and confident debut.