Damini Kane
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Damini Kane, MFA. Damini’s graduate thesis is a speculative fiction novel entitled Silvering.
Damini’s love of speculative stories began at a young age, with transportive novels such as Walter Moers’ The City of Dreaming Books and visual media such as anime and graphic novels. She has come to see the fantasy genre like a petri dish: a way to examine ideas in unique contexts. Her work has been published in the Lakeview Journal, the Purple Breakfast Review, and Muse India, and has appeared on Podcastle, an award-winning fantasy fiction podcast. For her piece Words like Frost, she was awarded the second place prize in the Joy Kogawa Award for Literature by the Surrey Muse Arts Society.
Silvering is a speculative fiction novel exploring religion and the relationship between divinity and humanity. As Dove falls to her death, she captures the attention of Entii, the three-faced god of a strict sect of Messengers; a sect that Dove has belonged to since she was a child. Entii promises to save her life, if Dove tells him about her past—and the pasts of her friends. But Entii’s promise is contingent on Dove’s continued faith in him. And she’s not sure what she believes anymore. Is it possible to be a good Messenger? And must it always come at the cost of being a good person?
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