Sanjana Thakur

Sanjana Thakur is a writer from Mumbai, India. She is the 2024 winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, The Rumpus, and The Southampton Review. Her poetry has been supported by the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Booth, and Pigeon Pages. Sanjana is a graduate of UT-Austin’s New Writers Project and Wellesley College.

My Left Hand, Unholy

Sanjana Thakur

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review Assistant Editor Hank Hietala on why he recommended “My Left Hand, Unholy” by Sanjana Thakur. When I first read “My Left Hand, Unholy,” I was struck by how the text moves through time. From the second paragraph on, Sanjana […]

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By Sanjana Thakur