Sarah Thankam Mathews

Sarah Thankam Mathews is an Indian-American novelist. Her debut novel, 'All This Could Be Different,' was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction. She was born in Bangalore, India, to Malayali parents, moved with her family to Muscat, Oman, where she was raised, and then immigrated to the United States at seventeen. She attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later the Iowa Writers Workshop. Mathews lives in Brooklyn and considers Kerala her ancestral home. She also founded the mutual aid network Bed-Stuy Strong in 2020.