Former SUISS Students

Work by former SUISS students

Swati Pal (John McGrath scholar 2005) published the edited collection Modern European Drama: Ibsen to Beckett in 2012 (New Delhi: Pencraft International), exploring the work of Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco, Genet and Beckett.

Confessions of a Rebel Child, the first novel by former SUISS student Carissa Marks (SUISS 2009), was published in 2011 with CreateSpace.

Aruni Kashyap (CWIT winner, SUISS 2009) has been published widely before and after he came to us. His latest poetry collection, Grandma-lullabies (Sahitya Akademi), is about to come out, and he has just signed with Penguin (India), who will publish his first novel, The House With a Thousand Novels, in 2012.

Swetha Prakash (CWIT winner, SUISS 2007) won the prestigious Jura Malt Whisky New Writer Retreat in 2009 (her Jura Diary can be found here). Her short story 'Shadows' has been published in the Scottish Book Trust Anthology Spirit of Jura (2010). Her illustrated children's story Padma Goes to Space, which developed from work she did at SUISS, was published by Tulika Books in 2011.

2009 saw the publication of Bollywood on the Bend (Sampark), the debut novel of former SUISS student Sangeeta Wadhwani (SUISS 2005).

Since studying at SUISS, Sampurna Chattarji (CWIT winner, SUISS 2005) has had a collection of poetry published, entitled Sight May Strike You Blind (Sahitya Akademi, 2007) as well as the novel The Land of the Well (Harper Collins, 2008).

Former SUISS student Sheri Benning (SUISS 2006) has been published in the collection Breathing Fire 2. Canada's New Poets (eds. Lorna Crozier & Patrick Lane, Nightwood Editions 2004). Her poetry collection Thin Moon Psalm appeared with Brick Books in 2007.

Lisa Shafer (SUISS 2003) has had her short story 'Keeping Secrets' published in Mslexia (2004).

In 2010, two former SUISS students came back to Edinburgh to read at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Chloe Schama (SUISS 2004) introduced her novel Wild Romance: The True Story of a Victorian Scandal (Bloomsbury 2010), and Susan Wilson (SUISS 2005) presented her annotated edition of correspondence between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean (published by Edinburgh University Press).