Sanjna N. Singh is a writer and filmmaker based out of New York and New Delhi. After working for five years at HBO, Sanjna directed or supervised shows like Mob Wives, Storm Chasers and Hotel Impossible for the Discovery Channel, Vh1, Travel Channel, Food Network, Esquire, Logo and others. Her independent feature documentary, Out of Status, was nominated for the Amnesty Human Rights award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and won the South Asian Journalists Association’s Best Broadcast Award. Sanjna has also been awarded grants from the Experimental TV Foundation, Center for Asian American Media and the New York State Foundation for the Arts for her film work. 

Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Guernica, Bitch, Tricycle and Zora as well as the humor website Slackjaw. A two-time Jerome foundation grant recipient in writing, Sanjna has also received fellowships from Yaddo, the Anderson Center, Hambidge, the New York State Summer Writer’s Program and Ucross along with multiple grants from the University of Iowa where she is a graduate of their celebrated nonfiction MFA program. She has been awarded the Speculative Literature Foundation’s grant for fiction. A recent Writer’s Room Fellow in screenwriting, Sanjna has served as script advisor on feature film screenplays by award-winning directors. She currently lives in Iowa City with a needy houseplant and will pet big dogs on the street.