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'''Monidipa "Mimi" Mondal ''' (Bengali: মিমি মন্ডল) is an Indian [[speculative fiction]] writer based in New York.<ref name="Feminism India-9May18">{{cite news |url=https://feminisminindia.com/2018/05/09/interview-mimi-mondal-ssf-writer/ |work= Feminism India |title=Meet Mimi Mondal: India’s First SFF Writer Nominated For A Hugo |date=9 May 2018 |first=Pallavi |last=Varma |accessdate=15 May 2018}}</ref> She writes in many genres, including [[science fiction]]. Mondal is the co-editor of ''Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler'', an anthology of letters and essays, which received a Locus Award in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://locusmag.com/2018/06/2018-locus-awards-winners/|title=2018 Locus Awards Winners|work=Locus Online|access-date=2018-09-08|language=en-US}}</ref> It has been nominated for a 2018 [[Hugo Award]],<ref name="She-8Apr18">{{cite web|title=To the stars and beyond: A conversation with Hugo Award nominee Mimi Mondal|url=https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/conversation-hugo-award-nominee-mimi-mondal/ |date=8 April 2018 |first=Jessica |last=Xalxo |work=She the People TV |accessdate=11 May 2018}}</ref><ref name="DeccanChron-22Apr18">{{cite news |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/sunday-chronicle/shelf-life/220418/hugo-nomination-for-indian-writer.html |work= Deccan Chronicle |title=Hugo Nomination for Indian Writer |date=22 April 2018 |first=Swati |last=Sharma |accessdate=11 May 2018}}</ref> and the William Atheling Jr. Award.<ref name="Ditmar">{{cite news |url=https://locusmag.com/2018/04/2018-ditmar-award-winners/ |work=Locus |title=2018 Ditmar Award Winners |date=2 April 2018 |accessdate=15 May 2018}}</ref> Mondal is the first writer from India to have been nominated for the Hugo Award.<ref name="DeccanChron-22Apr18"/>

Mondal worked as an editor at [[Penguin India]] between 2012 and 2013, and as the poetry and reprint editor of ''[[Uncanny Magazine]]'' between 2017 and 2018.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://locusmag.com/2017/06/uncanny-staff-changes/ |work=Locus |title=Uncanny Staff Changes |date=27 June 2017 |accessdate=15 May 2018}}</ref> Her work has appeared in such venues as [[Tor.com]], ''Uncanny Magazine'', ''Fireside Magazine'', ''The Book Smugglers'', ''[[Daily Science Fiction]]'', ''[[Kindle Magazine]]'', ''[[Muse India]]'', ''Podcastle'', and ''Scroll''.<ref name="Uncanny profile"/> Mondal is also a history and publishing scholar with a special interest in South Asian speculative fiction, and wrote a two-part history of South Asian speculative fiction for Tor.com in 2018.<ref name="Part I">{{cite news |url=https://www.tor.com/2018/01/30/a-short-history-of-south-asian-speculative-fiction-part-i/ |work= Tor.com |title=A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Part I |date=30 January 2018 |first=Mimi |last=Mondal |accessdate=15 May 2018}}</ref><ref name="Part II">{{cite news |url=https://www.tor.com/2018/02/26/a-short-history-of-south-asian-speculative-fiction-part-ii/ |work= Tor.com |title=A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Part II |date=26 February 2018 |first=Mimi |last=Mondal |accessdate=15 May 2018}}</ref>

==Biography==
Mondal was born and raised in Kolkata, where her father worked as a West Bengal Civil Services (WBCS) officer and her mother worked at the State Bank of India. Mondal was given the nickname "Mimi" at birth, "like Bengali children usually are," she says in a roundtable interview.<ref name="Karki">{{cite web|url=http://mithilareview.com/woc_roundtable_09_17/ |title=Women of Color in Speculative Fiction: A Round Table Discussion |work=Mithila Review |first=Isha |last=Karki |date=11 April 2018|access-date=15 May 2018}}</ref> From 2015 onwards she has primarily published as "Mimi Mondal" rather than "Monidipa Mondal".<ref name="ISFdb">{{cite web |title=Summary Bibliography: Mimi Mondal |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?217971 |website=Internet Science Fiction Database |accessdate=26 July 2018}}</ref>

Mondal states in an online essay that her two first languages were Bengali and English.<ref name="Translating"/> She later learned Hindi, Old English, and small amounts of several other languages.<ref name="Translating">{{cite web| url=https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/on-translating-the-stories-yet-unwritten-a-dalit-perspective-from-india |title=On Translating the Stories Yet Unwritten: A Dalit Perspective from India |work=Words Without Borders |first=Mimi |last=Mondal|date=28 October 2017}}</ref>

==Education==

Mondal attended [[Nava Nalanda High School]], [[Calcutta International School]], and [[Jadavpur University]],<ref name="TI2018">{{cite news |title=Kolkata girl nominated for global sci-fi award |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/kolkata-girl-nominated-for-global-sci-fi-award/articleshow/63636318.cms |accessdate=26 July 2018 |work=The Times of India |date=6 April 2018}}</ref> receiving a B.A. in English in 2010 and an M.A. in English in 2012.<ref name="CV">{{cite web |url=https://rutgers.academia.edu/MonidipaMondal/CurriculumVitae |first=Monidipa |last=Mondal |title=Curriculum Vitae |accessdate=11 May 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
She received the 2013 [[Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan|Commonwealth Shared Scholarship]] in Publishing Studies and attended the [[University of Stirling]], Scotland,<ref name="Translating"/><ref name="Feminism India-9May18"/><ref name="Stirling">{{cite web |title=MLitt in Publishing Studies |url=https://www.publishing.stir.ac.uk/tag/mlitt-in-publishing-studies/page/2/ |website=University of Stirling |accessdate=26 July 2018}}</ref>
from which she received a Master of Letters (MLitt) in Publishing Studies in 2015.<ref name="Uncanny profile">{{cite web|title=Mimi Mondal|url=https://uncannymagazine.com/authors/mimi-mondal/|website=Uncanny|accessdate=12 May 2018}}</ref>

In 2015, Mondal attended the [[Clarion West Writers Workshop]] in Seattle, USA, where she was the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholar.<ref name="Feminism India-9May18"/> In 2017, she completed her MFA in Creative Writing from [[Rutgers University]].<ref name="Rutgers">{{cite web |title=Alumna Mimi Mondal is a Finalist for the Hugo Award|url=https://mfa.camden.rutgers.edu/2018/05/08/alumna-mimi-mondal-is-a-finalist-for-the-hugo-award/ |website=Rutgers University |accessdate=26 July 2018|date=8 May 2018}}</ref>

{{quote|"I feel like many of us are writing the stories we’d like to see! I would really like to see regional mythology, folklore from India being used in stories.... I would also like to see more traditional performances, and actually uncensored historical research reflected in stories, because so much of Indian history that we know is curated to match the idea of post-British nationalism."<ref name="Karki"/>}}

==''Luminescent Threads''==
''Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler'' (Twelfth Planet Press, August 2017; {{isbn|978-1-922101-42-6}}) is a collection of works by more than 40 writers, issued in honor of the 70th anniversary of [[Octavia E. Butler]]'s birth.<ref name="DeccanChron-22Apr18"/> It is Mondal's first book-length work.<ref name="Scroll">{{cite web |url=https://scroll.in/latest/874065/delhi-lawyer-gautam-bhatia-dalit-writer-mimi-mondal-nominated-for-2018-hugo-award |work=Scroll |title=Lawyer Gautam Bhatia, writer Mimi Mondal nominated for 2018 Hugo Award |accessdate=11 May 2018|date=1 April 2018}}</ref> The anthology was co-edited by Mondal and Alexandra Pierce.<ref name="DeccanChron-22Apr18"/> It consists of memoirs written as if addressed to Butler personally, mixed with more scholarly essays.<ref name="DeccanChron-22Apr18"/> The title is derived from Butler's novel ''Patternmaster''.<ref name="Locus-14Jan18">{{cite web |last1=Wolfe|first1=Gary K. |work=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]] |url=http://locusmag.com/2018/01/gary-k-wolfe-reviews-luminescent-threads-connections-to-oc%C2%ADtavia-e-butler-edited-by-alexandra-pierce-mimi-mondal/ |title=Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler edited by Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal |accessdate=12 May 2018|date=14 January 2018}}</ref>

''Luminescent Threads'' was nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award in the category of Best Related Work,<ref name="Scroll"/> and received the Locus Award<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://locusmag.com/2018/06/2018-locus-awards-winners/|title=2018 Locus Awards Winners|work=Locus Online|access-date=2018-09-08|language=en-US}}</ref> for Best Non-fiction on 22 June 2018. It is currently nominated for a British Fantasy Award.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/news/british-fantasy-society-british-fantasy-award-2018/|title=British Fantasy Society, British Fantasy Awards 2018|date=2018-07-06|work=The British Fantasy Society|access-date=2018-09-08|language=en-US}}</ref> It was also nominated for a 2018 William J. Atheling Award for Criticism or Review, an Australian Science Fiction Award, being eligible for its Australian editor Pierce and Australian publisher Twelfth Planet Press.<ref name="Ditmar"/>

==Bibliography==

===Short fiction===

====The Other People series (published anachronistically)====
*''Other People'' (2016)<ref name="Karki"/><ref name="Brooklyn">{{cite web |title=Mimi Mondal to be Published in Tor.com! |url=http://www.bsfwriters.com/blog/mimi-mondal-to-be-published-in-torcom |website=Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers |accessdate=25 July 2018|date=1 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="Other">{{cite web |last1=Mondal |first1=Mimi |title=From "Other People" |url=https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/from-other-people-mimi-mondal |website=Words Without Borders |accessdate=25 July 2018}}</ref>
*''This Sullied Earth, Our Home'' (2015)<ref name="Karki"/><ref name="Brooklyn"/><ref name="Sullied">{{cite web |last1=Mondal |first1=Mimi |title=PodCastle 349: This Sullied Earth, Our Home |url=http://podcastle.org/2015/02/03/podcastle-349-this-sullied-earth-our-home/ |website=The Fantasy Fiction Podcast |accessdate=25 July 2018|date=3 February 2015}}</ref>
*''The Trees of My Youth Grew Tall''<ref name="Trees">{{cite web |last1=Mondal |first1=Mimi |title=The Trees of My Youth Grew Tall |url=http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-trees-of-my-youth-grew-tall/ |website=Strange Horizons |accessdate=25 July 2018}}</ref> (2018)
*''His Footsteps, through Darkness and Light'' (forthcoming in 2019)<ref name="Brooklyn"/><ref name="Writings">{{cite web |title=Writings |url=https://mimimondal.com/writings/ |website=Mimi Mondal |accessdate=26 July 2018}}</ref>

====Other stories====
*''So It Was Foretold'' (2018)<ref name="Foretold">{{cite web |last1=Mondal |first1=Mimi |title=So It Was Foretold |url=https://firesidefiction.com/so-it-was-foretold |website=Fireside Magazine |accessdate=25 July 2018}}</ref>
*''Learning to Swim'' (2017)<ref name="She-8Apr18"/><ref name="Anathema">{{cite web |last1=Mondal |first1=Mimi |title=Learning to Swim |url=http://www.anathemamag.com/learning-to-swim/ |website=Anathema: Spec from the Margins |accessdate=25 July 2018}}</ref>
*''And the Final Frontier is Heaven'' (2015)<ref name="She-8Apr18"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mondal |first1=Mimi |title=And the Final Frontier is Heaven |url=http://kindlemag.in/and-the-final-frontier-is-heaven/ |website=Kindle |accessdate=25 July 2018}}</ref>
*''Things to Do after They’re Gone'' (2015)<ref name="DSF">{{cite web |last1=Mondal |first1=Mimi |title=Things to Do after They're Gone |url=http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/magic-realism/mimi-mondal/things-to-do-after-theyre-gone |website=Daily Science Fiction |accessdate=25 July 2018}}</ref>
*''The Sea Sings at Night'' (2015)<ref name="Xalxo">{{cite news |last1=Xalxo |first1=Jessica |title=Mimi Mondal Hugo Award nominee on queer writing, the marginalised and this nomination |url=https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/mimi-mondal-hugo-award-nominee-queer-writing |accessdate=25 July 2018 |date=9 April 2018}}</ref>

===Anthology===

*''Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler'' (with Alexandra Pierce, 2017)<ref name="She-8Apr18"/><ref name="Locus-14Jan18"/><ref name="Brooklyn"/>

===Essays===

*A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction, Part I<ref name="Part I"/> and Part II<ref name="Part II"/> (2018)<ref name="Yalamanchili">{{cite web |last1=Yalamanchili |first1=Pavani |title=South Asian Authors Nominated For Science-Fiction & Fantasy Writing Awards |url=http://theaerogram.com/south-asian-authors-nominated-for-science-fiction-fantasy-writing/ |website=The Aerogramme |accessdate=25 July 2018|date=18 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="Akbar">{{cite web |last1=Akbar |first1=Prayaag |last2=Mehta |first2=Tashan |last3=Bhatia |first3=Gautam |title=Remaking the Difference: A Discussion about Indian Speculative Fiction |url=http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/remaking-the-difference-a-discussion-about-indian-speculative-fiction/ |website=Strange Horizons |accessdate=25 July 2018|date=30 April 2018}}</ref>
*On Translating the Stories Yet Unwritten: A Dalit Perspective from India (2017)<ref name="Translating"/>
*Missive from a Woman in a Room in a City in a Country in a World Not Her Own (2017)<ref name="Uncanny">{{cite web |last1=Mondal |first1=Mimi |title=Missive from a Woman in a Room in a City in a Country in a World Not Her Own |url=http://uncannymagazine.com/article/missive-woman-room-city-country-world-not/ |website=Uncanny |accessdate=25 July 2018}}</ref>
* Characters Are Not A Coloring Book Or, Why the Black Hermione is a Poor Apology for the Ingrained Racism of Harry Potter (2016)<ref name="Ingrained">{{cite web |last1=Mondal |first1=Mimi|title=Characters Are Not A Coloring Book Or, Why the Black Hermione is a Poor Apology for the Ingrained Racism of Harry Potter |url=http://www.thebooksmugglers.com/2016/12/characters-not-coloring-book-black-hermione-poor-apology-ingrained-racism-harry-potter.html |website=The Book Smugglers |accessdate=25 July 2018|date=20 December 2016}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website}}

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