Selina Sheth, born 1972 in India, is an author, journalist and screenwriter based between Mumbai and New Delhi. Her work has featured on platforms such as The New York Times, Scroll, The Wire, Arre, Open Democracy, Yoga Journal International, The Bangalore Review, Out Of Print, Literally Stories, Nether Quarterly, The Woman Inc., Spillwords Press, Saaranga Books, Roli Books, Kitaab International (South Asia), Cosmopolitan India, Le City Deluxe India, First City, The Daily Eye, Star Television, Sony Entertainment, Walt Disney India, Zee Television, Asia Business News, MTV Asia News and BBC World.

Selina’s past credits include a senior script consultancy position on the Hindi/English feature film Dil Kabaddi (2008), starring Irrfan Khan and Konkana Sen Sharma. 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 Screen Videocon and RAPA Award for co-creating and co-directing Agnichakra, Zee Television’s most popular crime series at the time. 

Alongside, she has held editorial and creative positions with the TV18-CNBC and Sony Entertainment networks, and has subsequently worked as a writer/consultant on a number of fiction and non-fiction web projects for streaming platforms in India. 

In 2022, Selina’s reportage on Kabul’s literary culture was published in A Brief History of Afghanistan, a book by Portugal-based journalist Ricardo Alexandre. The same year, she became a Council Member of the Print Media division, Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Maharashtra). Further, Selina has served as a guest speaker at Mumbai’s Yatha Katha International Film and Literature Festival, the Elevate Writers Conclave and the FX School. In March 2023, she was profiled in Kitaab International’s ‘South Asian Women Writing’ series. Since then, she has written and compiled InstaShots, a digital photo chapbook forthcoming on Amazon India, and co-developed 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, Selina maintains a keen interest in teaching and studying the practice, and often writes about contemporary yoga and ayurveda for international readers. 

Selina is an alumnus of Hindu College, Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. She has participated in writing workshops via Stanford Continuing Studies (California), Gotham Writers Workshop and The Writers Studio (both in New York), Berlin Writers Workshop (Berlin), City Lit (London) and the British Council (New Delhi) with an emphasis in short fiction, autobiographical fiction and creative non-fiction.

She is currently working on her debut novel.