Nikesh Shukla is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. He wrote the 2023 Spider-Man India miniseries ‘Seva’ for Marvel,  as well as numerous television projects.

He won multiple awards for writing the short film Two Dosas starring Himesh Patel and has worked in multiple writer’s rooms including on projects for Apple TV, Amazon Prime, HBO and Sky. In 2024, he was a Sundance Institute Fellow on their prestigious screenwriting lab.

Nikesh recently released the first book in his kids’ series, The Council Of Good Friends. He is also the author of three YA novels, Run, Riot (shortlisted for a National Book Award), The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal) and Stand Up.

He is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny.  Nikesh’s book, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and is in development to be a feature film. He has also written a book on writing called Your Story Matters, having taught creative writing for years at Faber Academy, Arvon Foundation, University Of Bristol, Bath Spa and various other places. Nikesh has mentored writers and helped launch the careers of people who have gone on to become bestsellers, award-winners and culture-shifters.

Nikesh is the co-founder of The Good Literary Agency. He was one of Time Magazine’s cultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Global Thinkers and The Bookseller's 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. In 2024, he won the Malorie Blackman Impact Award at the Diverse Book Awards.

Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the reader's choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene Suleyman, and a collection of writing by young people called Rife. He has been a youth worker in Bristol, where he lives, an Observer Magazine columnist, done anti-racism work for a football club and takes his shoes off when visiting other people's houses.