Nayani Jensen is a writer and historian of science from Halifax, Nova Scotia (Kjipuktuk). After studying Mechanical Engineering and working on climate research projects, she received a Rhodes Scholarship and went on to study English Literature and History of Science at the University of Oxford. In both her academic and creative work, she is interested in merging arts and sciences in interdisciplinary approaches to history, science and fiction.
Her fiction and poetry have appeared in publications including Nature, Augur Magazine and The New Quarterly. She received the 2024 RBC Bronwen Wallace award for Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
Her debut short fiction collection LIKE RABBITS is forthcoming from Scribner Canada. She is represented by Denise Bukowski.
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