Smita Das Jain

Smita Das Jain is a fiction writer who lives in Gurugram, India, with her husband and daughter. Writefluence ranked her first story collection, A Slice of Life, in its top three Indian fiction titles, and her first novel, A Price to Love, was included in Delhi Wire's top 50 books of 2022.

In 2023 her short story Purchased Love won first prize at the Bharat Award for Literature. She was the only Asian writer among the top 20 winners of the Spring 2022 flash fiction contest run by the US magazine Women On Writing, and she was shortlisted for the Women's Web Orange Flower Awards in 2022 and 2023. Her other books include Till Fate Do Us Part, Twisted Tales and Turns and Jagannath: Stories of Faith and Devotion. Away from fiction she works as an executive and life coach, has spoken at TEDx and writes on personal development; Leading With Words reflects that work.