Sonali Prasad was born and raised in New Delhi, India. Her journalism has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, Hakai Magazine, Quartz, and Esquire Singapore. She has been awarded a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, Global TED Fellowship, MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, Logan Science Journalism Fellowship and a Jan Michalski Writing Residency, among other grants and honours.
Glass Bottom, her first novel published with Picador India in July 2024, was deemed the ‘‘literary debut of the year" by the publisher. It was listed in Telegraph India’s ‘The page turners of 2024: fiction’ among esteemed writers such as Samantha Harvey, Jhumpa Lahiri and Percival Everett, and was also shortlisted for the Kalinga Literary Festival Book Award in the category ‘Debut (English)’.
Prasad has also given talks and conducted lectures, panels and workshops at TED Women, MIT Open Ocean Lab, Harvard Climate Leadership Program, Wellesley College (Massachusetts), India Culture Lab, TEDxGateway, and various International Olympic Committee conferences.
Areas of Expertise
Art, Climate leadership, Community engagement, Coral reef conservation, Documentary production, Ecology, Environmental advocacy, Longform journalism, Poetry, Research, Science, Social ruptures, Technonogy, Volunteerism, Writing