Anjana Appachana is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She was born in Kodagu, India in 1972. Her first collection of English language stories, Incantations and Other Stories, was published in the UK in 1991 and in the US in 1992. The work earned her an O. Henry Festival Prize from the National Endowment for the Arts. A follow-up novel, Listening Now, was published in 1997.
Appachana currently lives in the United States.