Parismita Singh is a writer and artist, based in Assam, India. She is the author of Peace has Come, a collection of short stories and the graphic novel Hotel at the end of the World. Her children’s books include the graphic novel Mara and the Clay Cows and Fat King, Thin Dog. She has edited the anthology Centrepiece: New Writing and Art from Northeast India and helped conceptualise the Pao Anthology of Comics.

Parismita’s works have been shortlisted for the Sakti Bhatt First Book Award and The Little Magazine New Writing Award; and longlisted for the Atta Galetta (Fiction) Prize. She has been a recipient of the Charles Wallace Writers Fellowship. She has been awarded residencies at the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University (USA) and University of New South Wales, Australia.

Other publications by Parismita include The NRC Sketchbook, a graphic reportage series for Huffington Post (India), and an illustrated column on craft and culture for Voice of Fashion. Her practice delves into questions of conflict, history, sustainability, indigenous knowledge, textile, craft cultures and pedagogy. Her current projects include a novel and an art project Feminist Narratives of Cloth and Vegetables.

She heads a creative multi-lingual education project in rural Assam, working with the NGO Pratham Education Foundation. Her community art practice includes workshops, classroom pedagogy and bookmaking that promotes diverse and inclusive forms of storytelling.