Dipti Anand is an Indian writer, curator and editor.
Her work spans literature and the visual arts, with an interdisciplinary practice that explores text-led curation and philosophically driven writing across forms, centered on constructions of the self, narrative, memory and authorship.
She holds an MA in the humanities and social thought from the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University, with concentrations in philosophy, literary theory and comparative literature, and a BSc from Babson College with a focus on entrepreneurship and the literary and visual arts. She has further trained in writing and curatorial practice with institutions including Exeter College, Oxford University; the Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art; Asia Art Archive in India; the Royal College of Art, London; and Tin House.
She is the curatorial director at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, where she has conceptualized and curated over twenty-five exhibitions, including two major gallery shows under her own authorship. Her work engages closely with a diverse roster of South Asian artists across exhibitions, publications and public programming.
Over the course of her career, she has edited over fifty books across literary fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir and poetry, and continues to work selectively on editorial projects.
Her writing has appeared in Maudlin House, Catapult, SORTES, Bruiser, the Aerogram, ASAP Art, and elsewhere, including a poetry anthology and numerous exhibition catalogues. Her fiction was longlisted for the DZANC Books Diverse Voices Prize in 2020. She is currently working toward the publication of her first novel.