Tasha Suri is a British fantasy author and former academic librarian.

Her debut novel Empire of Sand (published in 2018) won Suri the Best Newcomer (Sydney J. Bounds) Award at the 2019 British Fantasy Awards[1] and was listed by Time as one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time in 2020.

[2] In 2022, her novel The Jasmine Throne won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

[3] Suri was born in Harrow, London to Punjabi parents; they often returned to India for vacations.

Formerly an academic librarian at Imperial College London,[5] she is now a full-time writer.