Preethi is a Chennai-based writer who has been telling stories since her final
year of school, when she first understood, in the way you understand things
you cannot quite explain, that fiction was not an escape from the world but
the most direct and honest route into the parts of it that mattered most.
What started as the private habit of filling notebooks in the margins of
study time became, over the years, a genuine discipline: the patient,
deliberate work of building characters who feel true and placing them in
situations that illuminate something real. She has never been interested in
stories that are purely comfortable. She is interested in the stories that ask
something of you.
Her early published work appeared in several anthology collections,
where she developed the compressed, precise voice that now marks her
longer fiction. Writing for anthologies taught her something she has carried
into every project since: a story worth reading has no room for anything that
does not fully earn its place on the page.
She is the author of two earlier works in psychological fiction. Her first,
The Unquenchable Paranoia, follows the mechanics of betrayal inside a
circle of trust, charting the way greed and friendship destroy each other in
slow motion. Her second, The Unlatched Guile, tracks the quiet unraveling
of a domestic life built on a single critical omission, tension generated not
through dramatic event but through the accumulation of ordinary detail. Both
were noted for their slow-building dread and their refusal to let the reader
look away.
404: Justice Not Found is her most technically ambitious work to date,
and the most urgent. She spent several months researching artificial
intelligence profiling systems, data monetization practices in the mental
health technology sector, and documented cases of institutional
whistleblowing before writing a single scene.
She is currently working on her next book.
