The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Tanya Banerjee, MFA. Tanya’s graduate thesis is a young adult fantasy novel entitled The Invisible Return.
Tanya is a multi-genre writer whose work explores interculturality, race, mental illness, and intergenerational trauma through characters of color. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Dystopian Short Story Prize; a 2022 Playwrights’ Gym participant at Green Thumb Theatre; a 2023 VIWFF Screenplay Competition semifinalist with her TV pilot, Process; and a 2023 ArtStarts Explores workshop leader. During the MFA, she worked as a graduate teaching assistant and a marketing coordinator. Current projects include YA and adult fiction, CNF, and original songs. Tanya has an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia.
The Invisible Return is a young adult fantasy novel that speculates on race and racism, while also exploring the themes of trauma, memory, friendship, bullying, revenge, and love. In the peaceful yet racially unjust world of Exiadix, the Dimension of Time, Fae Mukherjee and Achaius Finehardt, sixteen-year-old Manipulators, team up after both Fae’s powers and her sister, Tiya, go missing. Their journey becomes much more complicated and dangerous when a series of unexplained, tragic incidents occur. The narrative flits between the points of view of Fae, Tiya, and the antagonist, Elymas, and plays with time and memory.
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