Aneeta Sundararaj is the recipient of the Trisha Ashley Award in 2022 and the 2022 H.E. Bates Short Story Prize. She was longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2023 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2024 by The Hooghly Review. The stories for these prizes / nominations are included in Aneeta's latest collection of short stories, 'Tapestry of the Mind and Other Stories' (Penguin Random House SEA, June 2024).

Aneeta trained and practised as a lawyer before her writing career began when she created a website as a resource for storytellers and called it ‘How to Tell a Great Story’. Aneeta has also been published in many magazines, ezines and journals, including more than 250 feature articles in our national newspaper, the 'New Straits Times'. Her book projects include her bestselling novel, 'The Age of Smiling Secrets' which was shortlisted for the Anugerah Buku 2020 organised by the National Library of Malaysia. Incidentally, The Legend of Nagakanna (an edited version of Chapter 9) was published in 'We Mark Your Memory: Writings from the Descendants of Indenture' (University of London in partnership with Commonwealth Writers, 2018).  

Aneeta is also a proud Patron of Sutra Foundation. In 2021, Aneeta successfully completed a doctoral thesis entitled ‘Management of Prosperity Among Artistes in Malaysia’ and was awarded a 'Doctor of Philosophy (Management)' by SEGi University, Malaysia.