Dipti Anand is an Indian writer, curator and editor.
An interdisciplinary background in her education and work experiences has taught her the power a transference of ideas can hold between skills, spaces and knowledge bodies, nurturing the three prongs of her critical and creative practices. She has more than a decade of experience working in writing, publishing and the visual arts.
She graduated with an interdisciplinary master's of arts degree in the humanities and social thought from the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University in 2015, pursuing concentrations in philosophy, literary theory and comparative literature. In 2012, she graduated from Babson College, MA, with a bachelor's of science degree in business, with concentrations in entrepreneurship and the literary and visual arts.
She received a diploma from Exeter College, Oxford University, after attending a summer intensive programme in writing fiction and poetry. She has completed rigorous writing and curatorial workshops with the Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art and Asia Art Archive in India; the Royal College of Art, London; and the American literary journal Tin House. She also recently volunteered as a reader at Electric Literature.
She has worked at Gotham Ghostwriters in New York and Penguin Random House India in Delhi. She was briefly the senior fiction editor, at ANAMESA, an erstwhile interdisciplinary peer-review journal, following terms as an assistant poetry and art editor. While in publishing, both as a full-time and independent editor, she has edited around 50 books across genres, including literary fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir and poetry, and selectively continues to work on editorial projects.
She is presently the resident curator at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. At the gallery, she has conceptualized and curated over 20 exhibitions, including 2 major gallery shows under her own banner. She is actively engaged in the gallery's contemporary programme, working closely with a young and established roster of South Asian artists on exhibitions, art fairs, publications and programming.
Her writing has appeared previously in Maudlin House, Catapult, SORTES, Bruiser, the Aerogram and ASAP Art, and elsewhere, as well as a poetry anthology and several art catalogues. Her fiction made the long-list for the DZANC Books Diverse Voices Prize in 2020. She has completed her first novel, for which she is seeking representation.