Janice Pariat (Hindi: जेनिस पारिअत) is an Indian poet and writer. She was born in Assam and grew up in Shillong, Meghalaya.Boats on Land (Random House India, 2012), her debut collection of short stories, won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Young Writer Award for the English language and the 2013 Crossword Book Award for fiction. Pariat is the first writer from Meghalaya to receive an award from the Sahitya Akademi for a work in English.