Anjali Khosla is a writer and an Assistant Professor of Journalism + Design at The New School, where she teaches ethics & history, a course on South Asian news media, a couse about urban nature writing, and a course on the intersections of art and reporting. At The New School, she has also taught beat reporting and feature writing, and oversees thesis projects. Since joining The New School full-time in 2018, Anjali has received numerous Faculty Opportunity Awards and was the recipient of the university’s 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award. For several years, she was an advisor to the school’s Tadka South Asian student organization.
Her features for Gossamer magazine include this piece about the conceptual artist Lee Lozano; this piece about the Finnish concept of sisu, for which she was awarded the 2020 New York Press Club prize for travel writing; and this piece about Liberty London’s dark history of human display, which received the 2021 South Asian Journalists Association award for essay and opinion writing. In 2022, she received a second-place personality profile prize from the Los Angeles Press Club for this Alta piece about Wajahat Ali. Her reporting and other nonfiction work has also appeared in The Guardian, Air Mail, Hemispheres, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Rochester Post-Bulletin, Rhapsody (RIP), and the New York Times Local: East Village (RIP).
Anjali’s fiction and poetry has been published in Tarpaulin Sky, Skein, Invisible Ear, Glitter Pony, Seeing Other People, Juked, SHAMPOO, and other publications. Broadsides of her poems have been released by Broadsided Press and the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. Her poetry chapbook, Ghostbot, was released in March of 2019 by Wendy’s Subway / Nor By Press, and was a finalist in the 2020 Eric Hoffer Awards. You can purchase the letterpressed chapbook here. She was a 2019 resident at Arteles Creative Center in Finland; the 2021 Nadya Aisenberg fellow at MacDowell in New Hampshire; and the 2022 writing resident at 33 Officina Creativa in Toffia, Italy. She was also a resident artist at bEam arts in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2025. She sits on both The Objective and Second Wave’s advisory boards, and used to sit on the board of the Academy of American Poets.
Prior to joining the full-time faculty at The New School, she was the editor of Fast Company Digital, where she spent over six years writing and editing stories about business, innovation, technology, and design. While at Fast Company, Anjali wrote longform business features and cover stories for both print and online, along with articles, essays, Q&As, and analyses. In 2014, Anjali was part of a team that won Fast Company the American Society of Magazine Editor’s “Magazine of the Year” award. Before that, she spent a couple years working at the New York Daily News, where she also wrote a number of cover stories for the paper. Anjali also taught introductory, social, and investigative journalism courses at New York University; law, ethics, and safety at the City University of New York’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism; and platform journalism at Columbia University. She earned an M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an M.A. in Journalism from New York University.
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