Nikesh Shukla

Nikesh Shukla is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny. Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the readerโ€™s choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He is the author of three YA novels, Run, Riot (shortlisted for a National Book Award), The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal), and Stand Up. Nikesh was one of Time Magazineโ€™s cultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazineโ€™s 100 Global Thinkers and The Booksellerโ€™s 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. He is the co-founder of the literary journal, The Good Journal and The Good Literary Agency. Nikesh has also written a memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home and a book on writing called, Your Story Matters.