Hello, I’m Sienna.

I write contemporary fantasy where ancient Indian cosmology meets modern life, where the divine turns up in city streets and family kitchens.

I grew up introverted inside a culture of festivals, music, colour, and story.

Indian storytelling gave me my foundations:
dharma, karma, duty.
The weight of choices across generations.

But Indian culture has never had only one register.

I’m drawn to its quieter spaces.
The silence of a shrine.
The intimacy of ritual.
The things carried within families but rarely spoken aloud.

That’s the register I write in.

My debut novel, Divine Lies: The Unwilling Immortal, grew out of the tension between myth and modern life, restraint and desire, power and consent.

It’s a story about becoming immortal without surrendering the human.

Alongside the fiction, I write essays on storytelling, myth, and cultural memory at What We Carry, on Substack. One of them, “The Mark on the Skin,” is about fire: the kind you learn to fear in an Australian summer, and the kind you sit close to in a Hindu ceremony. It appears in Indie Lit Journal, Volume 2.

By Lamplight, my newsletter, holds the choices I made and unmade in writing Divine Lies: The Unwilling Immortal. If you’d like to see how the book was built, I’d love to have you there.

And you’re always welcome to write to me at sienna@siennasharma.com.

—Sienna