“Rani Neutill is a writer of passion and conviction. Her story is urgent. Read it.”
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of The Sympathizer
Rani Neutill is a queer, biracial Indian American writer. The recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, she has taught ethnic American and postcolonial literature at Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins University and other institutions. She currently teaches classes in memoir at GrubStreet in Boston and creative writing and Asian American literature at both Tufts University and Emerson College. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, ELLE.com, Al Jazeera English, CNN, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, Catapult, Longreads, The Rumpus amongst other publications. She has been nominated for two Pushcarts for her work in Redivider and Longreads. Rani co-edited Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader (Duke University Press, 2024, — go ARMY!). She earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley.
A Suitable Agency will be representing her debut non-fiction work, a memoir, called Do You Know How Lucky You Are?