Sita Bhaskar is the author of Shielding Her Modesty (February 2006, Frog Books, India) - a collection of short stories set on both sides of the globe. Her reviewers mention "Shades of R.K.Narayan." Included in this collection is Your Self Storage, which won an Honorable Mention in the 24-hour Writing Contest co-sponsored by The Capital Times and the Wisconsin Book Festival 2004 and was published in The Capital Times in October 2004.

She is also the winner of Desilit's Rapid Writing Contest (August 2006). Her winning entry A Betrayal was published in March 2007 in Desilit Magazine - an online literary magazine supported by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council.

She was a finalist in GSU Review's 2007 fiction contest and her short story Grievance Cell was published in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue.

Her short story Swayamvaram was published in Crab Orchard Review's special issue - Come Together - Occasions, Ceremonies & Celebrations.

She received an Honorable Mention in Washington Post Magazine's fiction contest for her story Touch of Wrinkled Skin.

I got the idea [for Pipe Dreams] after a technical support call. Can't remember which company it was, but the call went to tech support in India - to the same city where I'd lived most of my life. (Chennai, but I continue to call it 'Madras') The person who helped me called himself Dan (or Bob or Rick - some generic name) and spoke with an American accent, but I could hear my own language (Tamil) in the background. As I waited for him to troubleshoot my problem, I started to think what if the person with a problem was in India waiting for a badly needed break in his business and someone played a prank on him with this newly acquired American accent. And the story took off from there.