Hello, I’m Sienna.

I write contemporary fantasy where ancient Indian cosmology meets modern life, where the divine turns up in city streets and family kitchens.

I grew up introverted inside a culture of festivals, music, colour, and story.

Indian storytelling gave me my foundations:
dharma, karma, duty.
The weight of choices across generations.

But Indian culture has never had only one register.

I’m drawn to its quieter spaces.
The silence of a shrine.
The intimacy of ritual.
The things carried within families but rarely spoken aloud.

That’s the register I write in.

My debut novel, Divine Lies: The Unwilling Immortal, grew out of the tension between myth and modern life, restraint and desire, power and consent.

It’s a story about becoming immortal without surrendering the human.

Alongside the fiction, I write essays on Substack at What We Carry, on storytelling, myth, and cultural memory. One of them, “The Mark on the Skin,” appears in Indie Lit Journal, Volume 2.

By Lamplight, my newsletter, gathers letters about the story, the characters, the world. The choices I made, the ones I unmade, the decisions that shaped Divine Lies: The Unwilling Immortal but never show up on the page. If you want to see how the book was built, that’s where I’d love to have you.

—Sienna