- Tanaïs Perfumer:
Company: Tana?s
Web: studiotanais.com
Tana?s, a New York City-based author and perfumer, has established a distinctive voice at the intersection of literature and sensory art. Their book In Sensorium: Notes For My People won the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, celebrated as a genre-defying work that offers a vital, alternative feminist perspective on South Asian history. Through the evocative lenses of scent history and sensuality, the narrative explores themes of colonization, caste, and nation-state formation with unprecedented depth.
As the author of the critically acclaimed novel Bright Lines, Tana?s earned recognition as a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and The Brooklyn Public Library Prize. Their forthcoming work, Stellar Smoke—a feminist futurist novel—will be published by Dutton Books in 2026, promising to extend their exploration of identity, power, and sensory experience into speculative terrain.
