Selina Sheth, born 1972 in India, is an independent journalist and writer based between Mumbai and New Delhi. Her stories, essays and scripts have featured on a range of Indian and international platforms such as Scroll.in, The Wire, Arre, Open Democracy, Yoga Journal International, The New York Times, The Bangalore Review, Out of Print, Literally Stories, Nether Quarterly, The Woman Inc., Cosmopolitan India, Le City Deluxe India, First City, Star Television, Walt Disney India, Asia Business News, MTV Asia News and BBC World.

Selina was a screenplay consultant on the 2008 Hindi/English feature film Dil Kabaddi (or Games of the Heart), which is currently available for viewing on Amazon Prime. Prior to this, she wrote and directed The Red Thread Zens, a documentary feature on the Punjabi author and poet Amrita Pritam. In the early 2000s, she was nominated for a Radio and Film Association (RAPA) award for co-creating and co-writing Agnichakra (or Circle of Fire), a popular crime series on India’s Zee Television Network. She has also held long-term editorial and creative positions with TV18-CNBC and Sony Entertainment, and regularly freelances as a writer/consultant on fiction and nonfiction web projects for streaming platforms in South Asia.

Selina’s reportage on Kabul’s literary culture was published in A Brief History of Afghanistan from A to Z (by Portuguese journalist Ricardo Alexandre) in 2022. That same year, she became a Member of the Print Media division, Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WICCI), an independent body that helps women from disadvantaged communities find work in the creative arts. In 2023, Selina was profiled in the ‘South Asian Women Writing’ series, an initiative of Singapore’s Kitaab magazine. She has also served as a guest speaker at Mumbai’s Yatha Katha Film and Literature Festival, the Elevate Writers Conclave and the FX School.

At present, Selina is working on Anytime, Sometime, a digital photo chapbook soon to release through an independent publisher, and co-developing an interview-led podcast that explores the working artist’s process, inspiration and worldview. Additionally, as a Hatha Yoga therapist certified by The Yoga Institute, Mumbai, she often writes about Yoga and Ayurveda for international readers.

Selina is an alumna of Hindu College, Delhi University; the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi; the Berlin Writers Workshop, Berlin; and The Writers Studio, New York. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing through Lindenwood University’s award-winning online arts program while simultaneously awaiting the publication of her debut novel Half Moon Rising: A Midlife Coming-of-Age.