About Asha

Asha Rajan is a writer and editor who lives and creates on Whadjuk, Noongar boodjar, land which was never ceded. She acknowledges with respect the elders and custodians of this land.
Asha has been a Contributing Editor at the online writing community, YeahWrite, since December 2016. She is also a judge for various Super Challenge competitions for YeahWrite. Asha was an editor at the online literary micro-essay blog, Dead Housekeeping, from January 2015 to May 2020. She became the Managing Editor at Dead Housekeeping in May 2020; a position she continues to hold.
Asha is also a freelance editor who’s interested in a wide variety of editing projects.

Bylines & Awards
Instantáneas de Ficción Vol. 3
- Translated into Spanish: The Innocence of Mabel Cunderdin and Charlie
Brushstrokes II (anthology)
- Matriliny (poem)
Grieve 2021 (anthology)
- My Father’s Hands (poem)
Underground Writers Zine Issue #34 (Fan Fiction)
- You Can Have it All (poem)
Rabbit #32 (Form)
- Boys Standing on a Footpath (poem)

Society of Women Writers WA:
Bronze Quill Award 2020
A Sense of Place (2020 – anthology)
- The Summer People
The Cyberettes (2021 – anthology)
- Timothy and the Crocodile
Peril Magazine
- The Gradual Disappearance of Ambika Krishnan: Before Ambika could read words, she read her mother.
Heroines Women’s Writing Prize 2020: The Neo Perennial Press
- Highly Commended (Short Fiction)
Ellipsis Zine
- Charlie: The day my oldest son ran away from home, a wedge-tailed eagle took up residence in his room. Nobody knew where it had come from, or where he had gone.
Modern Loss
- Loss Squared: One moment, I was planning a long-awaited trip to East Africa. The next, I was facing down two life-or-death decisions.
Pank
- Pictures of You: Ammamma

It Starts With Hope
- Immortal Hope: ‘Hope is born on the wings of choices…’
SheKnows:
- I force my kids to take selfies with me and I’m not the least bit sorry
Dead Housekeeping
- How to Say No
- How to Organise a Mother’s Day Party
- Chasing Away Shadows
- Warding Off the Evil Eye
- Wine Trifle
- Rajeshwari’s Guide to the Care and Keeping of Cats
- How to Clean Crabs: Or the Finer Points of First Aid with Seafood
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