JABberwocky Literary Agency is pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed a new client, Abhijith Ravinutala!

Abhijith Ravinutala is an Indian-American writer and a 2026 Writer’s League of Texas Fellow. For as long as he can remember, his favorite skill was telling stories, but it took him quite a while to try and make a career of it. As of July 2025, he quit his cushy corporate job to take a shot at becoming a full-time novelist—being a JABberwocky client means it’s going well so far. His fiction takes a satirical and sincere look at what it’s like to be an immigrant today, and often returns to intersections of culture, identity, and faith. As a recovering tech consultant, he also has a great deal to say about the inequality and excess of our current AI Age.

Abhijith’s writing appears in The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Southern Review, Glimmer Train, CRAFT, and elsewhere. He’s been a finalist for the Nelson Algren Awards and the Missouri Review’s Editor’s Prize.

Abhijith is represented by Susan Velazquez Colmant, who is excited to work with him on his contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby, WHY DIE?, set in the Austin tech scene amidst Trump’s re-election and the AI goldrush sweeping the nation. Nick Carraway is now Nikhil “Nik” Chaturvedi, an Indian-American who moves to Austin seeking a lucrative tech job. He reconnects with his childhood friend Vivian Feng who is in a rocky open marriage with Ben Callahan, the wealthy heir of an oil company and a right-wing podcaster. Nik also befriends JG, a mysterious Indian-American tech billionaire known for hosting lavish parties and building a longevity startup. JG was once Vivian’s childhood sweetheart and is now determined to win her back with Nik’s help. As Nik becomes entangled with people with too much money and too little conscience, he confronts the truth about the American Dream amidst increasing ICE raids and far-right policies that cast a shadow over the city, which are compounded by Ben’s online conspiracies about JG and “bad” Indian immigrants.

Find Abhijith on Substack and Instagram @tubbyabhi (unless you’re a bot, in which case please don’t find him).

Welcome, Abhijith!