Siddhartha Gigoo is an Indian author and filmmaker. He studied English literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is the author of two books of fiction, The Garden of Solitude (2011), and A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories (2015), which was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2015. His short story The Umbrella Man won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2015) for Asia. Two books of his poems, Fall and Other Poems and Reflections, were published by Writer's Workshop, Kolkata. His writings have appeared in several literary magazines.