Her novel-in-stories,
Bodies in Motion, received an honorable mention from the 2007
Asian American Literary Awards and was named a
USA Today notable book. In 2006, Mohanraj received an
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose. She was the co-founder and editor-in-chief for
Clean Sheets, an online magazine of
erotica, from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 she helped found
Strange Horizons, where she was the editor-in-chief through 2003. In 2004 she founded the
Speculative Literature Foundation, which she still directs, and is a founding member and Executive Director of
Desilit, an organization designed to support
South Asian and
diaspora writers. Mohanraj founded and is Executive Director of the biennial Kriti Festival, a celebration of South Asian and diaspora literature and arts, founded in 2005. As of 2013, she is Editor-in-Chief of
Jaggery, "A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal". Mohanraj was a host for season 12 of the
Writing Excuses podcast. Mohanraj's writing frequently explores issues of
cultural identity. She has noted in interviews that she feels the complexity of such issues in her own life: "When people ask me what my identity is, I could say I'm Sri Lankan-American ... I could say I was raised Catholic but now I'm agnostic. I could say I've been called a queer, because although I've been with a man the past 17 years, I'm bisexual." She is also something of a sexuality activist; she founded and moderates the
Internet Erotica Writers' Workshop, and was a former moderator for
soc.sexuality.general. Mohanraj has had stories published in the
Wild Cards science fiction
shared universe edited by
George R. R. Martin., and has announced that she will have further stories in forthcoming
Wild Cards anthologies
Fort Freak,
Lowball,
Low Chicago,
Joker Moon, and
Three Kings. == Personal life ==