Karishma Jobanputra: The Body of the Thing w/ Daphne Palasi Andreades

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• A signing will follow the talk.
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A lyrical and visceral short story collection, The Body of the Thing unpicks the hierarchies that thrum under our relationships, from first loves and lusts to motherhood and miscarriages, from sexual awakenings to final confrontations with death.

Traversing bougie neighbourhoods in Manhattan, sun-drenched piazzas in Italy, coastal Maine, and the bustle of London, these stories chase the fallout when women’s bodies are valued for their beauty and youth, dismissed and discarded when ill, or made useful as parents and caregivers.

Fluid, sensual, and fearless, The Body of the Thing is about looking at and living in the female body – and all of its complicated realities and wonders.

Karishma Jobanputra is a British Indian writer who has lived in London and New York and is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Fiction program. Listed for the Brick Lane Short Story Prize 2024 and for the Disquiet Literary Prize for Fiction in 2021 and 2023, she was selected as the winner of the Eilean Shona Writing Workshop scholarship in 2021, where she returned to teach in 2023. Her work has been published in No Tokens Journal, The Rumpus, Wildness Journal, and Columbia Journal, amongst other places. She is currently based in London.

Daphne Palasi Andreades is an artist and educator from Queens, New York. Her debut novel, Brown Girls, was hailed as “fearless” by The New York Times, and was a finalist for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the New American Voices Award. Her work has been taught to students across numerous universities and writing workshops, and has been published in over seventy countries. She served as the Writer-In-Residence at The City University of New York, Baruch College. Daphne earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her second novel, Lucid Dreams, will be released on October 27th, 2026.