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Reviews

“A deeply moving and disturbing story that artfully brings to light the ills of trafficking and the trauma of abuse that women, especially the mentally challenged, face amid an emphasis on family honour among South Asian families in the UK." - Sunetra Choudhury, NDTV.

"Engaging, shocking, and liberating. The greatest achievement of 'Victims For Sale' is not only its discovery of an unheard-of epidemic in our midst, but also the trust it invests in a young journalist who is herself teetering on the edge of a precipice." - Prannay Pathak.

“Amarnath, [while American], manages to break the stereotypes associated with the notion that Indian[-origin] authors are typically blatantly boring with their subject matter.” - The Attic Life.

Author Biography

Nish Amarnath is a New York-based journalist and an author of three published books, including a business biography and a monologue blurbed by Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind. Her latest book, Victims for Sale, a psychological thriller and crime suspense novel published by HarperCollins to considerable success in India, was nominated for the prestigious Mumbai Film Festival Word-to-Screen Award. Outside India, Victims for Sale received critical acclaim in the U.S., UK and Canada. This novel was endorsed by British novelist and film producer Adam Hamdy, and Shamus Award-nominated Charles Salzberg, who described her work as “reminiscent of the prose of Megan Abbott.” The success of Victims for Sale has allowed Nish to share her voice on social, cultural, and human rights issues at multiple platforms, including United Nations associations, U.S. State Department affiliates, NDTV, PBTV London, ITV America and British Council outposts. The book has also enabled her to tangibly mobilize institutional and governmental support for neurodivergent and differently-abled individuals. She has worked with the Government of Bangladesh for improved resource capabilities for children with autism and their families, and with the Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Center on campaigns against soaring insulin prices as well as mental health and resource access among individuals of color with Type-1 diabetes.

Other awards in writing include the Scholastics Fiction Prize (won), the AMMYs Award across North America (nominated), the Columbia University James. W. Robins Fellowship (won), the Young Journalists’ Program (selected by the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.) and two separate medallions from the Prime Minister of India and the President of India (won) for a collection of apologue-based short stories on cultural appropriation selected from roughly 400,000 entries across 80 nations. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington D.C.- based literary journal, Del Sol Review, Medium, the Radical Humanist, Yahoo! and the Big Thrill Magazine, where she interviewed and profiled authors like Christina Dodd. Beyond the contours of her current full-time editorial role at a newsroom in Manhattan, she’s also a part-time faculty member at the New York Writer’s Workshop. She was previously a managing editor of a prolific European magazine publishing group. She holds post-graduate degrees in journalism and media sociology from Columbia University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she was a Margot Naylor Scholar. Her website is www.nishamarnath.com.