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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"New" story day! I couldn't be more moved by Kaushik Narasimhan's beautiful reading of my story, "Amrit" in the current episode of @escapepod.org. If you missed this when it was print only a few years ago, please have a listen to this wonderful reading! Thank you, Kaushik and Escape Pod!

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Friends, it's new story day! Read the high stakes story of a worm going back and forth across a driveway here: westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/kiran-kaur-s...

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Looks like I'm going to have a story out in audio in the summer. More details after the contract is signed.

Stylized black and white clip art of Sikh with a huge beard wearing turban and sunglasses.

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

These last few weeks have been wonderful for short story revisions. Last week finished final edits on my high stakes story about a worm going back and forth across a driveway (out in a few months) and have now been working on my southern gothic ghost story, the closest to horror I've written.

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Friends, I'm teaching a class. It's all about writing interiority, and it's a subject I'm passionate about. It's an elusive topic and I've worked hard to make it concrete and accessible, as I consider it the lifeblood of prose fiction and a key component of voice. Here's a video introduction:

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Hello everyone. Long time no post. Some of you know I was a full-time caregiver to my elderly mom starting in 2019. She passed away in Aug 2024, and I've been laying pretty low since then. But I'm going to try to be out and about more in the new year. Here is tonight's sunset on my evening walk.

Two trees and a field of grass in front of a dark orange winter sunset.

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Readers of Portuguese, my story “The Color of Conflagration,” which won the A.C. Bose Grant this year for South Asian spec lit is out in translation in the anthology Terra Magica in Brazil. The Kindle version is free on Amazon through Sunday, November 5. www.amazon.com/Terra-M%C3%A...

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Daniel Pérez Castrillón @mangrii.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Buenos días, cafecito en mano☕ y disfrutando del nuevo relato publicado en Aanuk: «Coiffeur siete», de @kirsphere.bsky.social, donde a través de una IA peluquera obtenemos toda una reflexión sobre los cuidados paliativos.

Portada del relato Coiffeur Siete en Aanuk.

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

New publication day! My little story, "The Thin Rising Line" is up at Bullet Points, the anti-war military SciFi journal. www.nathantoronto.com/bulletpoints/…

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Nathan W. Toronto - Thin Rising Line

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Spanish readers, my story Coiffeur Seven is now up on Crononauta at aanuk.crononauta.es/coiffeur-siete-…. Thanks so much to María Albaladejo for translating!

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

Here's Vivaldi meeting my mom yesterday. Still on Target to bring him him Wednesday at noon.

A grey and white cat standing on his hind legs to be petted by an elderly woman in a wheelchair.

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

This is Vivaldi. I will be picking him up to bring him to his forever home on Wednesday.

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

RIP, Tara, aged 20, my mom's longtime companion and guardian, who was also a sweet friend to me as I've cared for my mom for the last four years.

A good-looking calico cat reclining against a scratching pad.

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

I'm at a B&B for a week, and these are my temporary companions, Pudding and Cookie.

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

This pic is from a while ago, but this is what my writing life sometimes feels like.

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Kiran Kaur Saini @kirsphere.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Hello all. For anyone who doesn't know me yet, I'm a long time writer of short stories who has been ramping it up since become a full time caregiver to my 89-yr-old mom at the start of the pandemic. I publish in both literary and spec milieus, and also write stuff that can't fit into either.

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