Mohan won Best Story at the 2014 Screen Awards in Bollywood for the film adaption of his story “The Railway Aunty”, remade as thriller B.A. Pass. He is also the recipient of an O. Henry Prize, the Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing, Brooklyn College, and residencies and fellowships, including Blue Mountain and Ledig House, New York and the Jentel Residency Program.
Mohan’s fiction and creative non fiction has appeared in One Story, the Toronto South Asian Review, Trikone Magazine, Tehelka, Open Magazine, National Geographic Traveller (India), and in anthologies in several languages and countries. Mohan’s work explores the creative ways in which queer people and women resist the repressions of middle-class life and reclaim their right to love and pleasure. He is currently working on a collection of personal essays about aging as a transnational queer, and how relationships change in unexpected ways, with oneself, with bio family and even with chosen community, as we traverse our middle and later years.
