Snigdha Poonam

Snigdha Poonam is a journalist and writer. She has worked for The Hindustan Times and The Caravan in Delhi and The Hindu in Bangalore. Her articles and essays have also appeared in Scroll, The Times of India, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist, Granta, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The Financial Times. Her first book, Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing Their World, won 2018’s Crossword Award for nonfiction and was longlisted in 2019 for the PEN America Literary Awards. In 2023, she received a MacDowell fellowship for creative nonfiction to finish her next book. She divides her time between the UK and India.