Samit Basu is an Indian novelist, film director and screenwriter. His current/upcoming work is a novel, The City Inside, to be published by Tor.com in 2022. It was published in India in 2020 as Chosen Spirits, an anti-dystopian novel set in Delhi in the late 2020s, and was shortlisted for India's biggest lit prize, the JCB Prize for Literature

Samit has been writing speculative fiction for almost two decades and has published several novels, beginning with The Simoqin Prophecies (2003). His first US-published novel was Turbulence (2013). He also works as a film director, screenwriter, comics writer and columnist, and in non-pandemic years lives in Delhi, Bombay and the internet.

Pronouns he/him, preferred name is Samit (pronounced Summit), full name Samit Basu (Bah-Soo)