Preti Taneja is the winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for her fiction, the Gordon Burn Prize for her non-fiction, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Languages and Literatures for her groundbreaking, experimental work. Her writing  is published in the Financial Times, Mousse, TANK, The White Review, the Guardian, the New Statesman, Granta, INQUE, Five Dials, and in anthologies of short stories, essays and literary criticism. Her prose poetry is featured in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets, edited by Jeet Thayil. Her work is published in English and in translation around the world.

She is a Contributing Editor at And Other Stories, and a Fellow of  the Royal Society of Literature. She also sits on the board of trustees at English PEN.

She is a Professor of World Literature and Creativing Writing. She has taught writing to students in Gaza, worked in prison, and in conflict zones and refugee camps with arts practioners, as well as with young people from socioeconomically deprived areas across the UK who want to get published.