Salini Vineeth

Salini Vineeth is a fiction and freelance writer based in Bangalore. She worked for ten years as an engineer before turning to full-time writing. Her latest novella, The Tree, The Well & The Drag Queen, was published by Red River Story in January 2026. She has also published five other books – Lost Edges (novel), Magic Square (novella), Everyday People (a short story collection), and travel guides for Hampi and Badami. She is the fiction editor of Mean Pepper Vine, a quarterly literary magazine. She has also published several short stories in prestigious literary magazines. In 2025, her flash fiction, Blossom Shower, won the MyStory contest at the Mumbai Literature Festival. Her short story, The Diamond Needle, won a special mention at BWW Short Story Award (RK Anand Prize) in 2024. She won the Orange Flower Award for Humour in 2023. Her short story collection, Everyday People, was the finalist in the Amazon Pen2Publish contest in 2019. She won the eShe short story contests in 2019 and 2020. Her stories have appeared in magazines like Out of Print, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Bangalore Review, Borderless Journal, Cafe Dissensus, Kitaab International, Funny Peals, and The Bombay Review. Her upcoming book, will be published by Red River Story.