Preeti Gill

Preeti Gill is an independent editor and literary agent. As a commissioning editor and rights manager, she has more than twenty years of experience in the publishing industry.

In her new role as literary agent she represents more than thirty well-known, critically acclaimed writers of fiction and creative non-fiction.

Her books include an edited volume of essays, The Peripheral Centre: Voices from India’s Northeast; Bearing Witness:

A Report on the Impact of Conflict on Women in Nagaland and Assam (co-edited with Sanjoy Hazarika), and Shadow Lives: Widowhood in India (co-edited with Uma Chakravarty).

She has edited (along with Samrat) Insider/Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in Northeast India. She is now working on an anthology of non-fiction writings on Punjab.

She has worked on a number of documentaries as scriptwriter and researcher, including Rambha: Mizoram’s ‘Trouble’ Years which she has co-produced with Sanjoy Hazarika.

Preeti Gill is the founder of Majhi House, a literary and cultural center in the city of Amritsar.