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Born in 1943, Vatsala grew up in Bombay and Rajkot and worked in IIT Madras. Her books include two poetry collections Suyam (Sneha, 2000) and Naan Yenn Kavingar Aaga Villai? (Ahuthi and Panikudam, 2018), two novels Vattathul (Uyirmai, 2006) and Kannukkul Satru Payaniththu (Bharathi Puthakalayam, 2016) as well as a collection of short stories Chinna Chinna Izhai (Bharathi Puthakalayam, 2018). Vatsala won the Tiruppur Tamil Sangam award in 2006 for her novel Vattathul. Her short stories have won the Illakia Chintanai award, the Agni-Subhamangala award and the Rajeswari Balasubramaniam award. Her poems in English translation have appeared in The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (Viking/ Penguin, 2009) as well as in Interior Decoration: Poems by 54 Women from 10 Languages (Women Unlimited, 2010).

A Professor of English at IIT Madras, K. Srilata was a writer in residence at the University of Stirling (Scotland), Yeonhui Art Space (Seoul) and Sangam house. She has five collections of poetry, the latest of which, The Unmistakable Presence of Absent Humans, was published by Poetrywala in 2019. Srilata has also published a novel titled Table for Four (Penguin) and has co-edited the anthologies The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (Viking/Penguin), Short Fiction from South India (OUP), All the Worlds Between (Yoda) and Lifescapes: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers from Tamilnadu (Women Unlimited). Srilata's translation of Vatsala's novel Vattathul (Once There was a Girl) was published by Writers Workshop.

With a PhD from the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Kaamya Sharma has taught courses on literary translation and worked as a translator for Cre-A Publishers. In 2019, she was awarded the Peter Taylor Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop for Literary Nonfiction. When notriding motorcycles, she pursues her interests in heritage, material culture and storytelling.