[2] The fellowship supported her studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, from which she graduated in 2019 with an MFA in creative writing.
[6] Gold Diggers is a magical realism novel that follows Neil Narayan, a second-generation Indian teenager from the suburbs of Atlanta.
[7] Ron Charles of The Washington Post praised the novel's "effervescent social satire" and "astonishing cultural richness", calling it an "invaluable new alloy of American literature."
[13] Sathian's short stories have appeared in Boulevard, The Masters Review, Joyland, and Salt Hill.
She has written nonfiction pieces, including for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, Food & Wine, The Juggernaut, The Millions, and OZY.