Vandana Singh is a common Indian female name. So, just to clarify, I am not Vandana Singh the plant pathologist, the chiropractor, or the fashion designer. I have also been mistaken for Vandana R. Singh, editor and translator (of, for example, the excellent anthology To Each Her Own).Despite all that I am not, I am many things, not least of which are Earthling, human, female, and Indian, but this page is devoted to one aspect of my being: my writing.

I’m a writer of speculative fiction, which includes science fiction and fantasy. I love this genre for its imaginative richness, its vast canvas, and the sophistication with which its best practitioners wield their pens. Science fiction and fantasy have come a long way from the lurid caricatures of ray-guns and little green men (which, by the way, I still insist on enjoying, for the most part); in fact no other genre asks deeper questions about the human condition or sets up literary thought experiments about our interaction with the physical world, including other worlds and new technologies.I was born and brought up in New Delhi, India, which is still home to me although I now live near Boston, in the United States