In 2022, her novel Ret Samadhi (2018), translated into English as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell, won the International Booker Prize.

She completed a BA at Lady Shri Ram College,[7] and a master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

[17] Her fifth novel, Ret Samadhi (2018), has been commended by Alka Saraogi for "its sweeping imagination and sheer power of language, unprecedented and uninhibited".

[18] It has been translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand, and into French by Annie Montaut as Au-delà de la frontière.

[1] Shree is the recipient of the Indu Sharma Katha Samman award[12] and has been a fellow of the Ministry of Culture, India, and Japan Foundation.