Salik Shah is an entrepreneur, poet, writer, editor and publisher based out of New Delhi, India. He is the founding editor and publisher of Mithila Review, a journal of international science fiction and fantasy established in 2015.[1]
His poetry, fiction, and non-fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Juggernaut Books, Star*Line, Coldnoon, Eye to the Telescope, Locus Magazine, among other publications.[2]
One of his short stories "Lakhen & Dragonflies" appears in a course syllabus at SOAS University of London.[3] His debut poetry collection "Khas Pidgin" won the Elgin Award nomination from Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association in 2018.[4][5] His poetry and fiction has also been nominated for Kumaon Literary Festival’s Fellows of Nature and Toto Awards.[6][7]
His interviews have appeared in a number of publications including Hindustan Times,[8] The Juggernaut,[9] and Samovar.[10] He has also interviewed several Hugo-winning authors for Mithila Review, including Cixin Liu, Ken Liu and Kij Johnson.[11][12][13] He has also interviewed award-winning speculative and horror authors Glen Hirshberg, Lavie Tidhar and Usman T Malik.[14][15][16]
He is a founding member of Plurality University (Paris),[17] a Future of India Fellow,[18] and The Seasteading Institute Ambassador to India.[19]
A former advertising professional, he passed out of Film and Television Institute of India in 2009.[1] [20]
He grew up in Kathmandu and New Delhi, and can read, write, translate, and speak in Hindi, English, and Nepali.[21][22][2]
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