K. Srilata is a poet, fiction writer, translator and Professor of English at IIT Madras. Her books include four poetry collections, Bookmarking the Oasis (2015); Writing Octopus (2013); Arriving Shortly (2011); and Seablue Child (2000), and a novel, Table for Four (2011). She has co-edited three anthologies, The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry; Short Fiction from South India; and All the Worlds Between, a Indo-Irish collaborative poetry project. She has translated R. Vatsala’s Tamil novel, Once There was a Girl (Vattathul) and The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History (2002), a book of women’s writing from the Self-Respect movement.
