Aanya Taneja is 11, from Noida, and her imagination stretches across galaxies and generations. That is not a line we wrote for her. It is simply what her stories do.
Raised on Percy Jackson and Harry Potter, she writes with heart, urgency, and a sense of wonder, inviting readers to both imagine and care deeply. The caring is the part that stands out. A lot of young writers can build a world. Fewer can make you worry about the people in it.
Her work appears in our 2025 anthology Hopscotch, alongside eight other young authors. Read her story there and you will see a writer who already understands that scale means nothing without stakes.
