Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an Indian writer and scholar of fourteen books that span poetry, speculative fiction, literary non-fiction, translation and, as editor, three poetry anthologies culled from the decade-long online journal she curated. She doesn’t follow marketplace demands; Priya follows and works on the writing.
PC: Rafiq Elliase
New Release
EARTHRISE Stories Pasts Presents Potentials
“Bridging The Chasms Between Past And Future
Earthrise Stories’ is a masterful narrative in which past wisdom illuminates future survival.
— Vinita Agarwal, OUTLOOK, 1 September, 2025
"… is by turns a solemn, earnest, and playful eclectic collection of poetry and prose that explores climate change concerns from a post-humanist perspective. …. Chabria incorporates interviews, folk tales, myths, urban legends, and science fiction in genre-defying ways to stress the multilayered consequences of climate change across all forms of life… Earthrise Stories is at once Indian, Asian, of the Global South, and indeed global. Chabria’s genre-bending experiment becomes a meta-text on how literature itself must evolve if it is to meet the scale of planetary crisis. Her call to “listen with all your senses” is not merely poetic; it is a radical invitation to reimagine our place in the world.”
— Priteegandha Naik, PR & TA
If writing is protest, then writing hope is a powerful, reverberating protest amidst the din of doomsday prophesying that we have come to expect. It also is protest to not give in to known structures, to hold out hope and courage in the face of a situation that is not behind us but within which we find ourselves in an ever evolving present. It is easy to be dystopic; to be utopic, calls for courage and perseverance, and so, the poetic tone in Earthrise turns inwards, deeply meditative, to access sources of hope as well as excavate what lies beneath, what holds the secrets to resilience and resurgence, to restoration and revival.
A constant play of styles, tones, moods, approaches, and structure underlines a deep concern and engagement with climate, with the universe, with the need to engage and create spaces for conversation that asks of us that we think, do something for ‘earthrise’, for giving in is not an option.
Earthrise is one such collection. It compels readers to stretch their imagination across billions of years; to encompass the past, the present, the future in all their prophecies and potentials.
Let its uniqueness impel you to read, then sit back, let the music of its language, the richness of its images, its vision and world-building flood your senses. For this collection presents the writer at her collective and individual best: as poet, writer, translator and the recreator of myths for a newer world, one in which earth rises once again. The canvas, the scope, the width of vision and imagination, of compassion and belonging, is vast, all-encompassing, all-embodied. This is a book of stories at a heightened level of invoking, querying, demanding answers, seeking pathways towards a single goal.
Calling Over Water
” We need this book of blessings more than we know: “So borrow the river’s tongue rife with rubbish/ and holiness. Get going.”
---John Bradley
Author of Erotica Atomica
“…combines organic echoes and inner stammer, overlapping voices of multifariousness in a poetic exercise of intertextuality rare to be found in Anglophone Indian poetry… (poetry empowered by rich experiences and widening travels, a knowledge-based alacrity imbued by deep cultural curiosity also engages in a wonderfully elusive nature writing that maps out her travelogues, resisting disruption and myth-building at the same time.)
— Aryanil Mukerjee
Poet and translator, editor, Kaurab
Andal - The Autobiography of a Goddess
— with Ravi Shankar
‘Chabria has re-created Andal... She uses the play of image, experience and thought… to excavate Andal. She enters her source through the membrane of Andal’s imagination, only to subsume herself within it… Chabria peels every context and imagery to touch upon the inner essence.( Her nuanced interpretations give Andal a present aesthetic reality. …Chabria ’s version… shimmers in the tension between the inner and the outer; the inner — Narayana — and the outer..’)
— T. M. Krishan
Carnatic Muscian, Author, Winner Ramon Magsaysay Award
Clone
“A witty, poetic dream, in a voice clear as a winter morning, sharp as a sliver of obsidian. This wondrous book gives me a strange, fearful joy."
--- Eileen Gunn
Author of Questionable Practices.
“a fresh, genre-bending variety of Indian speculative fiction …– The writing… is instilled with an ephemeral, almost transcendental quality. (The book …is a cerebral exercise in unravelling, collecting the myriad pieces of apparently disparate elements, and fitting the puzzle pieces together ) to ultimately hold up a magnificent tapestry as ephemeral, mystical and philosophical as the prose and style employed by the author."
